HYDERABAD: Park named after Shaikh Ayaz
HYDERABAD, Feb 18: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has named the newly built Nasim Nagar Park in Qasimabad taluka as "Shaikh Ayaz Park" and announced that the district would also name a large hospital to be built in the taluka after the great poet.
He was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the park on Saturday. He also said that important buildings, roads, hospitals, schools and parks would be named after Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Hosh Mohammad Sheedi and other heroes of Sindh.
He said that the district was spending Rs700 million on various development schemes in the taluka and a survey was being conducted throughout the district to identify its major problems.
The nazim said that a newly constructed road had already been named after Shaikh Ayaz and blamed haphazard planning for the host of problems facing the taluka.
He assured that he would get the sewerage system repaired and ensure people had clean drinking water, good roads, health cover, education and power and gas supply during his tenure.
SEWING MACHINES: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Saturday distributed 50 sewing machines to the destitute women on behalf of union council 16 of Latifabad and announced that the district would also give the women 25 sewing machines.
The nazim said that Jamali Goth, Brohi Colony, Murshidabad, Narejo Goth and Zeal Pak Colony, which formed UC-16 had been totally neglected in the past.
He said that with the extension of SITE more industrial units would be set up in the UC-16 and create jobs opportunities for hundreds of youths. District Naib Nazim Zafar Rajputa and UC Nazim Ms. Sajida Baloch also spoke on the occasion.
SCA: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture President Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah said on Sunday that the district government had approved linking the chamber’s head office with all the district offices through Internet.
To begin with Badin, Thatta, Mirpurkhas, Khairpur and Tando Mohammad Khan would be linked with the head office which would be computerised and provided Internet facilities, he said.
He said while speaking at a meeting that he had recently met with the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan who had assured him that maximum number of loans would be extended to the growers of Sindh and the procedure would be made more simplified.
The growers would be able to avail of the facilities through one window operation, Mr Shah added.
Her urged the chamber’s office-bearers in all the districts to upgrade their offices and increase the membership to derive maximum advantage from the facilities.An agriculturist from the Agriculture University of Tandojam Atta Mohammad Soomro and entomologist Abdus Sattar Abro who attended the meeting on special invitation delivered lectures on how to save mangoes from diseases.
They informed the mango growers about the preventive measures being taken in Australia to protect mango orchards from pest attack and diseases.