HYDERABAD, Sept 20: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil said on Wednesday that the district had started cleaning chocked sewerage lines and resumed work on the repair of damaged roads.

Talking to people during visits to different parts of Latifabad, he said that 99 per cent of stagnating rainwater had been drained out and a massive cleanliness campaign had been launched to remove garbage from the roads, lanes and streets.

He said that in light of lessons learnt from the recent heavy rains, the platforms of pumping machines would be raised. Six out of eight pumping stations submerged and rendered useless in the rains.

The nazim said that the pumps’ drainage capacity had also been increased to drain out remaining water from unit No2 of Latifabad and other low-lying areas.

Discussions were going on with the engineers whether the drains dug on emergency basis could be used on permanent basis, he said.

The nazim also visited many rain-affected localities of Qasimabad taluka and directed the installation of 200 kva transformer near Zeeshan pumping station as well as two more pumping machines of 40 and 25 horse power.

Wasa Managing Director Kafeel Ahmed, project director of Water Supply and Sewerage, Abdul Malik Khatri, and other officials accompanied the nazim during his visit.

HCCI ELECTIONS: Nine candidates for the executive committee of the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) were elected unopposed on Wednesday after their rivals withdrew from the contest.

Emad Siddiqui, Shahid Aziz Ghouri, Mohammad Akram Rajput and Qaisar Ali Khan from member class, Mohammad Altaf, Mohammad Irfan, Abid Mian and Hafiz Naseeruddin from associate class and Mohammad Aslam Khan of Kotri Association of Trade and Industry from the town association class were elected unopposed.

Since only nine seats of executive committee had fallen vacant, which were now filled there would be no elections on Thursday as announced earlier.

The new house would now elect the office-bearers of the executive committee.

SU: The University of Sindh has set up counters at its Directorate of Admissions to collect forms from the candidates for admission to the bachelors and masters degree programmes of 2007 session.

The counters have been set up to receive admission forms from the candidates. The university has also instructed the Habib Bank, Jamshoro branch, to establish separate counters to facilitate candidates in depositing their pre-entry test fee challan.

The ongoing admission process in the university will be completed by September 30. The candidates who have already obtained forms have been advised to submit required documents to the admission section within due date.

Admission forms are available at HBL branches at Tando Allahyar, Tando Mohammad Khan, Hala, Badin, Digri, Mirpurkhas, Dhoronaro, Sanghar, Dadu, Nawabshah, Thatta, Sukkur, Ghotki, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Larkana, Shahdadkot, Kashmore, Mirpurkhas and Karachi.

The candidates can also download the admission forms and admit cards from the university’s official website www.usindh.edu.pk.

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