HYDERABAD, Dec 18: A team of Jamshoro and Hyderabad district officials on Monday raided wheat godowns in Bolhari, Jamshoro and discovered that the wheat being supplied to floor mills by the godown management was highly injurious to human health.

The team headed by DDO health of Hyderabad Dr Altaf Khuhro, DDO revenue of Kotri Ayoub Khan Mari and food inspector Mohammad Yousuf found 130,000 wheat bags worth Rs15 million lying under open sky in the godown.

The team concluded that the wheat was highly injurious to human health and took samples in the presence of godson in-charge District Food Controller Zahid Hussain Baloch and Assistant Food Controller Zulfiqar Mallah to send them to Karachi for chemical analysis.

The raid was prompted by Hyderabad Atta Chakki Owners Association’s complaint to District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil that the wheat being supplied by food department to the floor mills of Hyderabad from Bolhari godowns was highly injurious to health.

NAZIM: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that he plans to provide buildings, furniture, teaching and non-teaching staff to all the shelter-less schools during remaining three years of his tenure

Addressing a meeting of district parliamentary committee on Monday, he said that even this day more than 175 schools in the district had no buildings and furniture and the students were compelled to study under open sky.

Mr Jamil said that it was people’s civic duty to cooperate with the district government. The district would provide trolley dust bins to the organisations working for the welfare of people, he said.

REGULARISED: Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union (CBA) thanked the chief executive of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) for regularising the services of a large number of contractual employees.

In a joint statement issued on Monday by the union’s central chairman Abdul Latif Nizamani and central office-bearers, Iqbal Kaimkhani, Mir Khan Baloch, Malik Sultan and Qazi Saleem Anwar the union said that the CEO had regularised on CBA’s recommendations the services of 140 linemen, eight line superintendents, nine metre readers and 12 bill distributors who had completed three years of service.

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