HYDERABAD, Oct 14: Hyderabad District Coordination Officer Muhammad Hussain Syed has directed the official concerned to complete the lining of watercourses by June 2006.
He was presiding over a review meeting at the Shahbaz hall here on Thursday evening of the ongoing watercourses’ lining in the district.
The DCO asked the concerned officers to expedite watercourses’ lining work under the National Programme of Improvement of Watercourses (NPIW).
He informed the meeting that the lining of 14 watercourses had been completed while work on lining of 54 watercourses was in progress.
Mr Syed said that the work of watercourses’ lining had been distributed among two teams and each team had to complete 27 courses.
EDO Agriculture Shahabuddin Siddiqi said that 32 watercourses were surveyed and 31 watercourses associations were registered with the EDO community development department, Hyderabad district.
Those who attended the meeting were EDO Revenue Abdul Sattar Jatto, DDO Coordination Aijaz Hassan and all DDOs of On-Farm Water Management. DCO: Hyderabad DCO Muhammad Hussain Syed has said that the district government of Hyderabad was actively engaged in collection of relief goods for the victims of earthquake.
He was receiving Rs100,000 from the owner of Shalimar air-conditioned coach service, Chaudhry Barkat Ali, for the presidential relief fund at his office on Thursday.
He said a paramedical team would be sent within 24 hours to Islamabad to help the medical units treating the injured.
Mr Syed said that the district government established four relief camps where revenue officials were engaged in collecting goods.
Later, he dispatched a truck loaded with everyday-use-goods worth Rs1 million, donated by the Hyderabad district government. DG HEALTH: The Sindh health services director general, Hyderabad, Dr Hadi Bux Jatoi, here on Thursday sent 20 trucks of relief goods containing medicines, edibles, ready-made garments, blankets and cloth worth Rs10 million for the earthquake victims of Azad Kashmir, NWFP and Punjab.
The goods were collected by the respective EDOs and other health department employees.
POLICE: The Hyderabad district police on Thursday sent 25 trucks of relief goods for the earthquake victims. The Hyderabad Additional IGP Mohammad Bachal Sangri and DIG Mazhar Sheikh had paid tribute to the people of Hyderabad for contributing generously to mitigate sufferings of the earthquake victims.
PROTEST: Relatives of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz leader Muzaffar Bhutto and the activists of JSSF staged a protest demonstration outside the press club on Thursday against his arrest.
Mr Bhutto has been behind the bars for the last eight days.
The protesters were led by Sooriah Sindhi.
Speaking on the occasion, JSSF leaders and the sister of Muzaffar Bhutto, Rani Bhutto, said that the authorities had launched an operation against the JSMM and JSQM workers. They said that Muzaffar Bhutto had not even been produced before any magistrate and feared that he might had been killed.
The protesters made it clear that they would protest in series throughout the province if the whereabouts of Muzaffar Bhutto would not been disclosed.
Meanwhile, the central chairman of the JSMM, Shafi Mohammad Burfat, said that his party workers would not give up struggle in any circumstances for the independence of Sindh.
He was speaking at a telephonic news-conference at the Tando Mohammad Khan press club on Thursday.
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