HYDERABAD, April 2: The general councillors of union council No9, Latifabad, Irshad Khanzada, Syed Hashmat Ali Shah and Nazar Mohammed, Labour Councillor Musaddiq Khanzada, and Minority Councillor Vija Kumar have expressed concern over the discrimination in the allocation of funds for development of different union councils.
In a joint statement issued on Monday, they said that all the development works carried out in the Latifabad Taluka had been undertaken in the areas of blue-eyed councillors.
They alleged that the development proposals of various schemes sent to the authorities concerned, which would cost Rs47.1 million, would benefit the areas of only six Nazims.
They alleged that only Rs17.1 million had been earmarked for 11 union councils and 30 million for six union councils.
They complained that this was great injustice and a clear attempt to fail the system.
They appealed to the higher authorities to take notice of this discrimination.
JSQM: A large number of JSQM activists staged a token hunger strike outside the Hyderabad Press Club on Tuesday to protest against the shifting of JSQM Chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi from the Nara Jail to the Karachi Jail and solitary confinement of its senior vice president, Dr Niaz Kalani.
Addressing the hunger strikers, JSQM leaders demanded that Mr Bashir should be brought back to the Nara Jail.
They alleged that Mr Bashir and Dr Niaz were being victimized as they had raised their voice against the murder of an under-trial prisoner, Mehmood Khoso, at the hands of central jail authorities.
They alleged that a conspiracy had been hatched to eliminate the JSQM leaders.
HESCO: A spokesman of the Hyderabad Electricity Supply Company (Hesco) clarified that the chief executive, Hesco, Brigadier Tariq Arshad was never ever invited to attend the meeting of the District Assembly.
He was referring to the press reports based on the criticism of the members of the District Assembly that the representative of Hesco had failed to attend the meeting to answer the complaints despite being invited.
The spokesman said that as head of a utility department, the chief executive, Hesco, held the elected institutions in high esteem and he would definitely attend any meeting in which he was specifically invited.
He said that on the day of the meeting, the chief executive was in the Wapda House, Lahore.
UPLIFT SCHEMES: Nawab Rashid Ali Khan, the Naib Nazim of Hyderabad District Council, has urged the Nazims of the union councils to recommend the development schemes of their areas and submit their proposals to the District Council without any delay to initiate the development work.
He was inaugurating twin nullahs on Mohammad Ali Johar road within the jurisdiction of union council-3 of Hyderabad city on Tuesday.
He said that development work in Sarfaraz Colony, Pathan Colony, Millat-i-Islamia Colony and Masoom Shah Colony had started. He said that the people should supervise the work to ensure its quality.
In his welcome speech, the city Nazim, Haji Moinuddin Shaikh, said that due to the choking and overflowing of gutter water, Gulshah road, New Cloth market, Liaquat Colony and Al-Rahim chowk were submerged under the dirty water.
He urged the director general of the Hyderabad Development Authority to initiate a long term plan to resolve the sewerage problem of the city.
He refuted the allegations that he was maintaining a discreet silence over the inequitable distribution of Rs500 million, earmarked for the improvement of sewerage system.
He said that he, along with Nazims of different union councils of city taluka, had protested against the inequitable distribution of funds.