HYDERABAD:Divisional Commissioner Hyderabad Syed Khalid Haider Shah has directed all the concerned government departments to continue cooperation with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to conduct free and fair general elections.
Presiding over a meeting of the district officers in the Conference Hall of the DC Complex in Tando Muhammad Khan district on Tuesday, the Commissioner asked for immediate steps to ensure the provision of required facilities at the designated polling stations.
Shah also directed the concerned officers to complete ongoing development schemes in the district without delay.
The commissioner said the officials should help Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) in its ongoing drive against illegal connections and other methods of electricity as well as in the recovery of dues from the defaulting consumers.
“The electricity theft causes problems for the consumers who pay their electricity bills honestly,” he noted, adding that HESCO authorities should also take indiscriminate action against the officers and staff of the company found involved in abetting the electricity theft.
The commissioner observed that due to the non-existence of a slaughterhouse in Tando Muhammad Khan, complaints were being received regarding the adulteration of beef.
He said the concerned department should establish a slaughterhouse in the district besides issuing licenses to the butchers so that the quality of beef could be addressed.
Deputy Commissioner of Tando Mohammad Khan Dharmoon Bhawani briefed that the district’s local government consisted of a district council, 2 town committees and 28 union councils while there was one seat for MNA and 2 seats for MPAs.
According to him, the development works were underway on 164 schemes of roads which include 19 new and 145 ongoing schemes.
He apprised that work was also underway on 2 new schemes of the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) and 36 schemes of the Education Works Department.
Bhawani added that under the Sindh Flood Emergency Housing Reconstruction Project, some 28,456 houses would be constructed in the district out of which 1,228 houses had been completed so far.
An Executive Engineer of HESCO informed the meeting that 1,345 illegal connections had been disconnected and action had also been taken against the elements involved in the electricity theft like registration of FIRs and penalties.
SSP Tando Muhammad Khan Syed Saleem Shah, Assistant Commissioner Tando Ghulam Haider Imran Rajput, District Health Officer Muhammad Yusuf Jahejo, Chief Municipal Officer Ijaz Mallah, Deputy Director Social Welfare Naeem Memon, Deputy Director Local Government Ghulam Mustafa Zaunr, Deputy Director Agriculture Sohail Ahmed Talpur and other officers attended the meeting.