HYDERABAD, June 15: A construction company has drawn the attention of the district government to the fast deteriorating sewerage system in Qasimabad taluka and urged it to take immediate corrective measures.

In a communication addressed to the district nazim, the company said that the silt in the sewerage lines had not been cleared for the last many years and due to the increase in the area population, the pumping stations could not dispose of the sewerage.

As a result, it said, the sewerage lines were lying choked and the system had collapsed. The firm pointed out that overflowing of drain water on roads had created health hazard and damaged the roads.

The builders recalled that the existing sewerage system was laid 15 years back but despite tremendous increase in the population of Qasimabad taluka, there had been no increase in the sewerage lines network.

In view of the approaching monsoon, the company suggested that silt in the main sewerage lines along the roadside should be cleared, damaged pipes replaced, additional pumps installed at the pumping stations and the existing pumping station upgraded with the addition of two new pumping stations at Sheedi Goth and Nasim Nagar roundabout. It also stressed the need for the establishment of a sewerage treatment plant in Qasimabad.

COPYING CASES: The controller of examinations, University of Sindh, has asked students who were reported in copying cases in annual examinations of 2003 of B.Com, part I and II, and B.A, part-I, and did not appear before the discipline committee on June 3, to appear before the university's examinations discipline committee on June 15 to record their statements.

SU: University of Sindh vice-chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui has lauded services of the Institute of Sindhology for preserving valuable material, including rare books contributed by prominent scholars of the country.

The vice-chancellor paid a visit to the institute's library on Tuesday. Institution of Sindhology director Shaukat Hessian Shoro told Mr Siddiqui that 46 collection corners had been established in the library. He said that more than 1,684 rare manuscripts had been purchased and collected by the institute.

BREACH: A 20-foot-wide breach that had developed in the Tando Bago Bahadur Wah at RD-13 on Monday night was plugged by the Left Bank Canal Area Water Board staff after eight hours on Tuesday.

Area water board director Nazeer Hussain Mughal told Dawn by telephone that the breach caused no damage as the water was disposed of into a drain in the Pangrio town.