HYDERABAD, July 3: Poor administration and apathy of managements has deteriorated condition of institutions meant for promotion of education, literature and culture.

This opinion was expressed at a meeting of the Sindh Culture and Literature Development Committee, held here on June 26. The proceedings of the meeting were released to the press on Thursday.

The meeting demanded that development of Sindhi language, literature, culture and educational institutions should be given priority. It said the government and its functionaries had failed to manage the organizations according to their charter. This had damaged objectives and spirit of establishing these organizations, it added.

The meeting was of the view that literature, culture and educational institutions of the province were national heritage and their deterioration should be considered as a national loss. It proposed that the people themselves should manage affairs of these institutions.

Expressing concern over the state of affairs prevailing in the Sindhi Adabi Board, the participants of the meeting blamed the management of the board for the crisis. They recalled that in the past this institution had served the cause of Sindhi literature and culture in a remarkable manner.

The meeting called for mobilizing all the available resources to save the board and recommended that it should be brought back under the ministry of culture.

It announced to hold a national seminar on July 27 to discuss the poor performance of literary, cultural and educational institutions and suggest ways and means to rectify the situation. It said intellectuals, writers, journalists and teachers from all over Sindh would participate in the seminar.

Noted intellectual and writer Rasool Bux Palijo, who is the chairman of the committee, presided over the meeting. Agha Shahabuddin, the secretary of the committee, former Sindh University vice-chancellor and scholar Prof (Dr) G. A. Allana, former Shah Abdul Latif University vice-chancellor and writer Abdul Hameed Sindhi, former Radio Pakistan director Inayatullah Baloch, Ghulam Nabi Mughal and Jami Chandio attended the meeting.

SPSC: The Sindh Public Service Commission has recommended the following candidates for appointment in the technical education project and the population department.

They are: Abdul Ghani, son of Abdul Rehman Rajput, and Zamir Ahmed, son of Mohammad Sachal Dayo, for the post of instructor computer information (BPS-17), Abdul Rauf Sanjrani, son of Abdul Aleem, for the post of instructor refrigeration and AC (BPS-17), Altaf Shaikh, son of Aftab Shaikh and Abdul Sattar, son of Dhani Bux Lodro, for the post of librarian (male) BPS-17.

No candidate was qualified for the post of librarian (female) BPS-17 and for the post of projectionist (BPS-12).