HYDERABAD, Aug 8: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil announced on Monday that all the union councils of the district would get Rs2 million each to complete ongoing development schemes in their areas.

Besides, the district would provide trucks with hydraulic system to 40 UCs to help them improve sanitation and cleanliness, the nazim added while addressing the members of city taluka council at the inauguration ceremony for Taluka Nazim Javed Jabbar’s office.

The city taluka was one of the largest talukas of the province and was, therefore, faced with equally bigger challenges, he said, adding that the taluka had to finish not only the current year’s schemes but also the schemes which had been left incomplete since last four years.

He said that Rs10 million would be spent on the main roads entering the city and assured the district would arrange for lighting on all the main thoroughfares. All the UCs must identify the schemes which would be of utmost benefit to people, he stressed.

Mr Jamil said that people had a moral responsibility to keep an eye on the quality of work and file complaints with the district government if they see any foul play.

He stressed that he would never compromise on quality and vowed that the district must remain ahead of all the 116 districts of the country in carrying out most number of development schemes.

ADP: The executive engineer of Provincial Building Division said in his July report that an amount of Rs530.786 million had been earmarked for 59 provincial development schemes under the current annual development programme (ADP).

Out of the 59, eight schemes pertained to agriculture department, 15 housing and four about construction of government offices, he said.

Six schemes pertained to education department, 12 health, six culture and tourism, four manpower, one home department and one was special project, he said.

He said that two agriculture marketing schemes were also included in the ADP for which federal government was providing funds.

BISE RESULTS: The controller of examinations of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Hyderabad, on Tuesday announced the results of HSC Part-I and II (class-XI and XII) annual examinations 2006 commerce group. No student managed to get A-1 grade in Part-II.

According to Part-II boys’ results, Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, son of Dr Mohammad Zafar Iqbal, secured first position by obtaining 800 marks while Mohammad Shoaib, son of Zahoor Mansoori and Mohammad Ali Shaikh, son of Abdul Sattar Shaikh, bagged second and third positions obtaining 783 and 776 marks, respectively.

Among the girls, Ghulam Fatima Talpur, daughter of Mir Pervaiz Talpur, Sana Naz, daughter of Mohammad Naeem Shaikh and Annam Masroor, daughter of Masroor Ahmed Mughal, secured first, second and third positions obtaining 833, 829 and 826 marks, respectively.

A total of 1,088 students including 203 girls sat the Part-II examination out of whom 946 including 193 girls passed. The board withheld 17 students’ result for various reasons.

SEA: The Sindh Employees Alliance (SEA) has demanded that the federal government order a high level inquiry into the alleged corruption in Sindh Education Department, Sindh Textbook Board, PITE, DEEP and School Management Committees.

A meeting of SEA central action committee held on Monday said that following the corruption charges the government should immediately remove Sindh education minister and the secretary of education.

The meeting resolved to continue protest demonstrations and hunger strikes across the province up to August 13 and advised the teachers and employees to contact the alliance’s legal aid committee if they were subjected to victimisation.

The meeting adopted several resolutions demanding withdrawal of ban on teachers and employees associations, fixation of employment quota for teachers’ children, uniformity in pay scale and allowances and strict implementation of Sindhi Language Act.

It further demanded that all the educational boards should be handed over to the education department, officers appointed on contract in the boards should be removed and victimisation of teachers and employees should be stopped forthwith.

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