DC asks highway officials to complete road work before monsoon rains.

HYDERABAD -- The Deputy Commissioner, Hyderabad Fuad Ghaffar Soomro on Monday asked the officers of provincial highway department to complete much delayed road construction work on Fateh Chowk to Tando Muhammad Khan Road before upcoming monsoon rains.

While chairing a meeting of provincial Highway department officials at his office, Fuad Ghaffar Soomro expressed annoyance over delay in completing road repair work since one year and said people had faced hardships during last year's monsoon as water accumulated at the under construction road for many days.

Soomro directed the officers concerned to ensure availability of at least 6 dewatering pumping machines at the site so that rain water could be drained out in case of heavy rains occurred.

The meeting was attended among others by the Executive Engineer Highways, Assistant Director...