NAWABSHAH, April 26: District Nazim Faryal Talpur has demanded that the Sindh education department should provide staff for the Nawabshah monotechnical institute for girls and the Sakrand institute for boys so that they could start functioning.

After visiting the monotechnical institute for girls on Wednesday she told reporters that the two institutes of garment technology and civil technology had been constructed at a cost of Rs42.72 million.

She said that the institutes were handed over to the Sindh education department two years back. She said that the SNE of sixty two posts 31 for each institute were created in 2003-4 but no staff has been posted.

She said that the institutes were non-functional since long and students desirous to study in the institutes were suffering.

She said that she had written a letter to the Sindh secretary education to provide staff for institutes immediately so that admissions may start and to save the precious time of candidates.

HIJACKED: Two armed men snatched a motorcycle from Huzoor Bux, an employee of the Sui Southern Gas Company, on the Nawaz Dahiri link road on Wednesday. No FIR was registered till the filing of this report.

PROTEST: Workers of the All-Pakistan Clerks Association observed a sit-in outside the EDO education office in protest against suspension of three employees from the Institute of Teachers Education.

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