City government road safety education programme
City Govt not serious to run road safety education drive
Karachi, Sep 13: The City District Government Karachi does not seem to be serious in
running the Road Safety Education drive, as hundreds of thousands of
campaign-related posters, broachers and pamphlets could not be distributed among
the school going children and were dumped into the storerooms. Sources in the
department said that due to lack of planning of Transport and
Communication Department (TCD) of CDGK one of the most important feature of the
Road Safety Education, the 'Mascot of Parrot' is not being used in the ongoing
road safety education campaign either. They said that the TCD has prepared
hundreds of thousands of such type of material to promote the roads safety
education, creating awareness among the school going children using interesting
ideas so that importance of road safety to be stuck up with the minds of
children to make them careful while crossing the roads. However, they had
started various road safety education awareness programmes and demonstration
recently but so far the TCD officials did not use the 'Mascot of Parrot, which
was the most popular mean of educating the young. They said that these days
were ideals for presentations because there is more rush of families in shopping
centres and bazaars due to Eid. A Parrot Mascot, is the most popular part of
road safety education in which a person wearing the Mascot of Parrot, standing
on busy roads informs citizens and children about road safety. According to
plan the Parrot Mascot was to visit schools and give tips and information about
road safety education in interesting manner so that children receive the message
with full motivation. Huge revenue of the CDGK spent on preparing of
leaflets, broachers and pamphlets which often do not distribute among the CDGK
schools. Parrot Mascot for spreading road safety education among school
going children was a marvellous idea to teach the children. The nation
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SBBMU calls for beefing up security on the campus
Larkana: The Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SBBMU) has
called for beefing up police patrolling and setting up pickets on the campus in
the wake of rising incidents of house robberies in the university's staff
colony. The vice-chancellor of the university Prof Sikandar Ali Shaikh
who chaired a meeting of senior faculty on Saturday said that robberies,
incidents of motorcycle snatching and recent incident of burglary in the house
of Dr Dargahi Shaikh in the staff colony had sent a wave of insecurity among
doctors. The meeting urged the DPO to intensify police patrolling and
establish permanent check-posts in the CMCH city block, Shaikh Zayed Hospital,
CMC children hospital and CMCH teaching block. The meeting expressed
concern over incidents in which the patients' attendants insulted the doctors
and asked the medical superintendent of the CMCH to register FIR against such
elements. The meeting demanded early arrest of culprits who committed
robbery in the house of Dr Dargahi Shaikh. Prof Sikandar Mughal, Prof Saifullah
Jamro, Dr Assadullah Mahar, Dr Afsar Bhutto and senior professors attended the
meeting. Dawn
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ACE arrests two officials for making illegal appointments
Karachi: The Anti-Corruption Establishment, Hyderabad has arrested two
Grade- 18 Officers of Education Department in a case FIR No.1/2009 registered
against them for making illegal appointments through the receipt of illegal
gratifications. Known as the "Hyderabad Education" scam unearthed recently
when an EDO (Education) Syed Muzzaffar Ali Shah was suspended by the competent
authority, as he ordered illegal and unauthorized appointment in his department
by taking huge amount of bribe. The arrested Officers are Saeed ur Rehman, a
Grade 18 Officer and presently posted as ADEO (Edu) Male, Hyderabad, while the
other Officer is Saeed Noonari, a former ADEO (Edu) Male, Hyderabad, now posted
in Tando Muhammad Khan as DO (Planning). According to ACE sources, the
allegations are that Syed Muzzaffar Ali Shah and others had appointed 183
individuals in the Education Department unauthorisedly, illegally and without
fulfilling of codal formalities. Out of these, he appointed 103 as JST on the
Secondary side, 66 JST on the primary side. APP
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