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HYDERABAD, Feb 17: The Water and Sanitation Agency has prepared a contingency plan to ensure quick disposal of sewage and water supply during Muharram.
Highlighting features of the plan in a statement issued here on Wednesday, Wasa managing director Shaukat Hayat Bhutto said in addition to increasing normal pumping hours, water tankers had also been arranged to meet any emergency regarding water supply.
He said desilting of a drain along the main road of Latifabad, units 8 and 12, disposal of accumulated sewage and sludge and covering of open manholes along routes of processions in Hyderabad's three taluka municipal administrations were also included in the plan.
He said four special desilting squads would be deployed to ensure sewage did not accumulate on the Station road from Qadamgah Maula Ali to Dadan Shah. Besides, a cess pool lorry would be also made available on the road exclusively for Qadamgah Maula Ali to take care of any emergency, he added.
Mr Bhutto said Hesco had been requested to avoid load- shedding for uninterrupted water supply and sewage disposal. He said complaint centres had also been set up at each taluka municipal administration in addition to the Thandi Sarak pumping station for entertaining public complaints regarding supply of water and disposal of effluent.
PAF: Registration for General Duty Pilot and Aeronautical Engineering courses as commissioned officers will be held at the Pakistan Air Force Information and Selection Centre, Hyderabad, from Feb 16 to March 4.
According to the selection centre, unmarried candidates having qualification of F.Sc with 50 per cent marks and age between 16 and 22 years on Oct 15 could apply for registration. Candidates will appear in a written test on March 6 at the Public School, Latifabad-3.
WOMEN'S DAY: The director of the Institute of Women Development Studies, University of Sindh, on Thursday announced that in connection with the International Women's Day on March 8, a memorial lecture on "Reproductive health problems" would be delivered by Prof (Dr) Roshan Aara Qazi, in charge of the gynaecology and obstetrics department, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences.
