HYDERABAD, Dec 4: Hyderabad Sarraf and Jewellers Group has criticised the Gari Khata sub-division of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) for issuing illegal electricity detection bills and demanded the company should cancel all such bills.

The group’s president Shafique Ahmed Ansari complained to Hesco officials about the misbehaviour of Gari Khata sub-division officials in a meeting with SE-I Habibullah Khilji, Executive Engineer Altaf Qureshi and Deputy Director (commercial) Mehmood Khan.

Mr Ansari said that the sub-division had issued highly inflated detection bills to the traders of Resham Bazaar, Shahi Bazaar and other business centres and demanded that the company should properly maintain power lines and take steps to protect people from the high tension line passing through Shahi Bazaar.

The Hesco official assured that the group’s genuine grievances would be redressed and advised them to contact senior Hesco officials instead of sub-divisional staff to get their complaints solved.

FRENCH LANGUAGE: The Department of International Relations of the University of Sindh chairman Dr Lutfullah Mangi announced on Monday that French language classes for the final year students would commence from January 8 next year.

He said that an agreement in this regard would be signed on December 7 between Vice-Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui and M. Jean Paul Bauliion, cultural consular of the Embassy of France, Islamabad.

SSC RESULTS: The controller of examinations of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education on Monday announced the result of Secondary School Certificate Part-I (Class-IX) science group annual examination 2006.