LARKANA, May 8: The activists of the Jeay Sindh Students Federation, (JSSF), Chandka Medical College (CMC) Unit, staged a protest demonstration against the construction of Thal canal on Wednesday.
The protestors led by Ilyas Tunio and others, marched through various roads of the city after taking start from the CMC. They converged at the Jinnah Bagh, Larkana, where the speakers criticized the authorities for allowing the construction of Thal canal and termed the project a conspiracy against the people of Sindh.
Meanwhile, a 12-year boy, Imran Jagirani, staged a hunger strike at the Jinnah Bagh, Larkana, demanding the release of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz’s chairman Basheer Khan Qureshi, Niaz Kalani and other political activists.
THIEF HELD: The special snap police party of Ratodero arrested an alleged thief, Khawind Dino alias Dado Jalbani, following an encounter near Pir Bahar Shah area.
NAB: A team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrived here on Tuesday to probe into the irregularities that few travel agents had been practicising by withdrawing foreign currency on same visas for more than once.
It was learnt that travel agents by virtue of possessing photo-state copies of passport and visas used to draw foreign currency for more than once.
Whereas under the law, each traveller is allowed to draw a fixed quota of foreign exchange in dollars once for the trip.
The travel agents through fraudulent measures used to draw dollars from banks in connivance of the bank officials, and sell the same in the open market.
The team members interviewed certain people, whose passports were allegedly used, and gathered facts.
SALARY: The fate of more than 50 revenue employees hangs in balance as the district account officer (DAO) has refused to clear their salary bills on the excuse that the finance department had not yet cleared their names.
The DAO Larkana, Shabbir Ahmed, raised an objection that 927 posts of revenue department have been abolished by the Finance Department vide letter No: F.D(B&E-VII)2(17)/2001 dated 10-4-2002 throughout Sindh.
The EDO (Revenue) maintained that the DAO was insisting on making payments only in line with new pattern. The district officer revenue said on Tuesday that according to his information in many a districts of Sindh salaries had been paid on old pattern by the DAOs.
Sources said that despite the abolition of the posts of office superintendent, the DAO Larkana has cleared salary bills in Larkana but for their bills he was pressing on seeking clear instructions from the finance department.
When contacted, the DAO said that he had asked the finance department, Zila Nazim and even District Coordination Officer to resolve the problem, but was still undecided.
The disputed staff would be placed in a ‘surplus pool’, the DAO said, and then the finance department would issue instructions for their payments.
It has generated a wave of resentment among the employees. The District Officer Revenue, Muhammad Amin Mangriyo, on Tuesday met the DAO to sort out the problem, but efforts bore no fruit.
LITERACY CENTRE: As many as 200 literacy centers to educate adults would be established in Larkana district with a cost of Rs16.948 million.
Professor Atta Muhammad Shaikh, Executive District Officer, said this here on Tuesday, and added that these centers would be housed in the already existing schools and run in the evening shifts.
It is a three-phased programme, and at the outset around 29 units would be setup.