Flood emergency control room set up.

HYDERABAD -- The Chief engineer Irrigation Kotri Barrage has set up flood emergency control room for Kotri Barrage Region.

According to announcement here on Friday, the Executive Engineer Kotri Barrage Division Jamshoro Nisar Ahmed Tunio has been assigned the duty of Flood Emergency Officer with Assistant Executive engineer Ware Sub-Division Jamshoro Tariq Asad Ursani as Flood Liaison Officer at flood emergency control room. Commissioner Sukkur Shafique Mahesar on Friday directed the local government department to work out a thorough plan for de-silting, cleaning and repair of Nullahs and stormwater drains so the funds could be released within time. Presiding over a meeting at his office here, the Commissioner said that pursuing the directives of the Government, deputy commissioners, local bodies and water utilities should be taken on board while envisaging a rain emergency plan so action could be taken in this regard. Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Sukkur Rana Adil Taswar on Friday directed the officials concerned to focus on the cleaning of the municipal and town committees nullahs and the sewerage system.

Chief Secretary (CS) of Sindh, Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, Friday approved 184 jobs for deceased quota in various provincial departments here.

The Chief Secretary presiding over a meeting of a committee on implementation of the deceased quota at his office through video link said that so far in...