LARKANA, June 7: The district council's education committee, objecting to the procedure adopted for recruitment of teachers, has demanded key role for the district government in the process.

In a letter addressed to the district nazim on June 3, committee chairman Amir Bakhsh Gaad said that the way in which tests were conducted for the recruitment, was a clear interference in district government affairs.

He alleged that in the past the same policy of teachers' recruitment had led to appointment of non-local teachers in the schools in remote areas, which consequently had remained closed.

Mr Gaad further pointed out that 700 schools remained closed in the district. He regretted that the government had ignored a resolution of the district council on Nov 22, 2003, which demanded that the district government should be taken into confidence before the recruitment.

If the recruitment policy remained same, the letter said, the chairman of the education committee would move a court of law. The copies of the letters had been sent to the chairman of the National Reconstruction Bureau and the secretaries of the Sindh local government and education departments.

DROWN: Two girls, Nirma, 6, and Asifa, 7, both sisters, drowned in a fish pond near Kambar town on Monday. As they were taking bath, they slipped into deep water in the pond in Bhawand Lakha village and drowned. Their bodies were spotted by passersby and later recovered.

REMANDED: Police here on Monday produced three teachers, Aziz Ahmed Tunio, Ghulam Ahmed Tunio and Ghulam Sajad Kalhoro, in the court of the third judicial magistrate and obtained their seven days remand. They were arrested on Saturday on the charge of issuing bogus orders of appointment in the education department.

Forty-four stamps, including those of the head of departments of the Sindh Agriculture University, Shah Latif University, DCOs of Shikarpur and Jafferabad, medico-legal officers, headmasters of different schools and nazims of different union councils were recovered from their possession, police said.

Blank degrees of M.Ed, mark sheets, domicile forms and service books were also recovered from their possession. A case has been registered against them with the Dari police on the compliant of Syed Abid Shah.

Initial investigations revealed that the teachers had issued 24 appointment orders for the post of primary teacher and received Rs1,140,000 for them. Those receiving the appointment orders had joined different schools in the district. The arrested teachers had disclosed names of other teachers and clerks who had been associated with them, police sources said.

KILLED: two armed men killed Imdad Sangasani Chandio in Warah town the other day and escaped. The cause behind the murder was said to be an old enmity.