Parts of lower Sindh still without power
MIRPURKHAS, April 30: Vast areas in lower Sindh remained deprived of power supply when high tension electricity poles of were damaged near Hyderabad on Friday. About 40 per cent of the required electricity was supplied to Mirpurkhas and its adjacent districts from Dadu.
On Friday at about 5pm, power supply got disrupted from Hyderabad causing breakdowns in Mirpurkhas, Umerkot and Tharparkar districts which also hit water supply.
Only 40 per cent of the power supply could be restored by the Hesco men. Most of areas of lower Sindh remained deprived of power supply for the last 24 hours which could not be restored till filing of this report.
GASTROENTERITIS: Registration of gastroenteritis patients, most of them children, has increased in the civil hosptial’s OPD as on an average five such cases were reporting to the hospital daily.
During a visit to paediatrics ward, it was noticed that 25 children suffering from gastro were admitted.
Paediatrician Dr Ghazi Khan Mari said that drinking water was not clean and water of pools in the rural areas has become unfit for human consumption resulting into the the increased number of gastro cases.
He advised the people to use boiled water.
EDUCATION WALK: A rally was taken out under the aegis of district education department from EDO education office as part of ‘Education for All’ which was led by EDO education, Haji Khan Rahu, here on Saturday.
Principal higher secondary school Bhansinghabad, Abdul Razzaque Parhiar, district officer Sports Saeedullah Khan, district officers elementary, teachers and students took part in the rally.
Carrying banners and placards they marched on main roads and reached market chowk.
Speaking on the occasion EDO Haji Khan Rahu said that Rs20 million were provided by the Sindh government for education department of district Mirpurkhas for promoting education and providing facilities.
He further said that scholarships were being given by government to girls students from class VI-VIII while MORA scholarships, text books and uniforms were being distributed among poor students to ensure 100 per cent education to students.
He added that government has establishing literacy centres for imparting education to older people. He advised social organizations, Nazims and parents to get their children admitted in schools.
WORLD BANK TEAM: A two member World Bank team inspected two distributaries where rehabilitation work was going on under the Sindh On-farm water management project on Friday.
The team leader, Usman Qamar for water-related project and senior community advisor Qazi Azmat Essa arrived here at Lal Khan and Sohrab distries for primary inspection and monitoring.
They were briefed by the filed in-charge Rasheed Maher, director Nara canal area water board Ghulam Mustafa Dahri, chairman farmer organisation (FO) Lal Khan Taj Muhammad Nukraich, contractors M.M.Chandio and H.Nisar Ahmed Memon and chairman FO Sohrab Minor.
They were also briefed about pace of work, social and environmental issues, improvement of inspection and non-inspection paths of distributaries, desilting of distries and minors, restructuring of module of water-courses, changing of gates and head regulators etc.
The field in-charge of project Mr Rasheed Maher said that 10 distributaries were selected for rehabilitation works where 60 to 70 per cent work had been completed.
BACKED: Divisional president of the People’s Party Parliamentarian, PPP, Mirpurkhas and MNA, Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani, visited hunger strikers camp of sacked employees of education department of 1998 on Saturday in front of the local press and offered them his party’s support.
Token hunger strike of the sacked employees of the education department entered the sixth consecutive day on Saturday for their reinstatements as most of them had been reinstated but 70 employees, including women, were not reinstated for some unknown reasons.