SANGHAR: Bureaucracy accused of sabotaging power devolution plan

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SANGHAR, April 3: District Nazim Roshan Din Junejo criticizing the government functionaries said that the bureaucracy is deliberately trying to sabotage the power devolution plan.

Talking to reporters here on Saturday, he alleged that even the chief of the district police was not attending the district council's sessions to deliberate on the law and order situation.

Mr Junejo said that the bureaucracy was not paying any attention to the resolutions adopted by the council members for the development of the area.

He lamented that even the district public safety commission was not constituted in Sanghar.

Naib Nazim Dr Mehmood Ahmed Rajput said that the district council had passed 130 resolutions and were sent to provincial and federal governments, but the departments concerned neither acknowledged nor they informed the district council of their fate.

He said that the district council had sent letters to National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) and other departments, but have failed to move them.

Mr Rajput said that more than 300 tubewells were out of order and the irrigation department was informed of the situation. A low grade official was sent who had no was not skilled enough to remove the faults.

He said that they reported the matter to the NRB and the secretaries concerned, but none of them bothered to reply.

DEMAND: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA), Sanghar chapter, at a meeting held here at Pir Syed Sibghatullah Shah Shaheed College has demanded removal of the principal.

A resolution was adopted demanding the transfer of Principal Aslam Rajput. Serious allegations were levelled against him at the meeting.

It was alleged that the principal had damaged a well-equipped computer laboratory of 40 PCs with internet and networking system.

It was decided that no SPLA member would perform HSC examination duties. The meeting was told that telegrams had been sent to the chairman and the controller of examinations, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad, not to appoint any SPLA member for examination duties.

When contacted, the principal of the college said that the SPLA members wanted a staff room and a guest house in the building which had been renovated for Bachelor of Computer Science classes at a cost of Rs3.5 million.

COLLEGE: Bahria Foundation College, Sanghar campus, would start classes in the first week of April, announced its principal Commander Shifaat Rasool Janjua.

He said that the college was providing quality education at affordable fees and added that more institutions of such type were needed in the rural areas.

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