HYDERABAD, Aug 9: The Government Secondary Teachers Association (GSTA), Hyderabad, at a meeting on Thursday, severely criticized the forced transfer of the headmistress of the Government Tahzeeb-i-Niswan Elementary Girls School and demanded the Sindh chief secretary, minister, and secretary, Education, to cancel the transfer immediately.

It pointed out that the Chief Election Commissioner had banned all transfers before the general elections.

INQUIRY: The inquiry committee is investigating into the reasons for the breach which developed in the Rohri Canal and caused huge losses.

This was stated by the member (recovery and settlement), Board of Revenue, Sindh, Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui, who is heading the enquiry committee, on Thursday.

He said that the committee has started collecting evidence regarding it.

He has asked the members of the general public that anyone who was interested in giving information regarding it may appear before the committee in the Bhitshah rest house on Aug 10 at 10am.

Meanwhile, under the directives of the Sindh chief secretary, K. B. Rind, 200 families stranded in the flooded areas of Taluka Matiari were provided ration packets on Thursday.

The ration packets were distributed to the victims of the villages of Salamat Keerio, Chutto Keerio, Esso Dahri, and Hasil Lashari by the deputy district officer, Revenue, Matiari Taluka, Zulfiqar Nizamani.

Each food packet contained 10kg flour, five kg rice, 2.5kg ghee, one kg sugar, one kg pulse, one kg iodine salt, and 100 gram tea bags.

MALARIA CONTROL PROGRAMME: A team comprising senior evaluator and health education officer of the Malaria Control Programme, Sindh, on Thursday visited various villages and relief camps established in the areas affected due to the breach in the Rohri Canal.

It collected blood samples from the people whom it suspected of having malaria and distributed medicines.

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