HYDERABAD, Dec 15: Sindh Irrigation and Power Minister Syed Ali Mir Shah has directed the authorities concerned to start work on the Right Bank Outfall Drain (RBOD) project and the schemes launched under the SCARP.

Speaking at a meeting at the office of the Hyderabad development chief engineer here on Saturday, he asked the authorities to start working on the project as early as possible.

The project is estimated to cost Rs14 billion of which Rs900 million has already been released for the current financial year.

The minister called upon the officials of the irrigation department to keep an eye on SCARP tubewells and ensure that all the tubewells were working properly so that additional water could be made available for the Rohri Canal’s command area. He said he would visit the tubewells shortly.

The chief engineer, development, Bashir Ahmed Dahar, informed the minister that the needed staff for the RBOD project had been made available and posted, while work on the project would be started after the acquisition of land.

The meeting was attended among others by the irrigation chief engineer of the Kotri Barrage, Muhammad Izhar Khan, and the irrigation chief engineer and the project director of the SCARP.

EXAMS: The theory programme of final professional MBBS annual examinations of 2001 (Medicine-I) will be re-conducted on Dec 27 at the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro.