LARKANA, Oct 3: Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Youth Development Programme was launched from here on Friday when PPP MNA Faryal Talpur distributed training orders among selected youth.
Calling it youth-skill development for employment programme, she said 525 youth would get training ranging from six months to one year in agriculture, labour and works and services departments and later absorbed in the related departments in Larkana district alone. They would be trained in Larkana, Ratodero, Naudero centers, she said and added that at a later stage the skilled manpower could be sent abroad. She conceded that government could not provide employment to all. She said under the programme 100,000 boys and girls would be trained in different disciplines and they would get an stipend from Rs4000 to Rs7000 per month during the training.
Answering a question about the faulty design of the Shahdadkot component of Right Bank Outfall Drain, she said a committee had been constituted to study the project. It comprised Secretary Irrigation Shuja Ahmed Junejo, two former secretaries Bashir Dahar and Idress Rajput, chief engineers of Sukkur Barrage and member (water) of Wapda.
The committee would hold its meeting in Shahdadkot on Saturday (4 October) with the elected representatives and the growers, she said. The members of the committee would later on hold meetings with her prior to finalising the project’s alignment in the light of the experts’ opinion and other stake holders.
When asked why Wapda had started work on the drain without seeking permission from Sindh irrigation department, she asked her secretary to contact secretary irrigation Sindh to seek details.
She said she had held meetings with the concerned departments and the stakeholders who held different views. The Wapda experts termed its alignment perfect while others’ contention was that RBOD, passing from Shahdadkot (with existing design and alignment), would submerge the town and its adjoining area.
ARREST: Acting on a tip-off, police arrested two alleged criminals on Friday, the DPO said.
Shoaib Jatoi and Abdul Qayoom Chandio were wanted in more than 50 cases registered with different police stations in Larkana and carried head money of Rs500,000 each, he added.
Talking to journalists, the DPO warned motorcycle owners to get their motorcycle registered in a fortnight or face action.
He said police had seized 248 bottles of liquor and picked-up Yasir and Aamir Mughairi but their accomplice Niaz Mughairi, a police sub-inspector, had escaped.
ASP city Nasir Qureshi told this correspondent that the sub-inspector had gone underground but he would be arrested soon, he added.