By Shaikh Sindhi
KOTRI: Taluka Nazim Kotri and a few members of the Taluka Council reportedly approved budget for fiscal year 2009-10 in a gathering held at the Autaq of Taluka Nazim Abdul Rehman Badhshah.
All the formalities for the budget were completed by the Taluka Council without informing local journalists and few officials.
The journalists demanded photographs of the budget session from Information Officer Jamshoro but he replied that no photograph was taken in the budget session. Meanwhile, TMO Fazal Karim refused to answer the queries of journalists about the budget session and said that the Taluka Nazim reserves the right to call a session whenever he wants.
Demo recorded against authorities of NBP Kotri
The employees of different government departments recorded a protest demonstration against the authorities of the National Bank of Pakistan for not releasing their salaries on Friday. While talking to newsmen, the leaders including Noor Muhammad Pathan, Ahmed Ali, Shafi Muhammad and others said that the computers of the National Bank of Pakistan Kotri branch are out of order, due to which the salaries of thousands of employees of the Taluka have not been issued, due to which they are facing many hardships. On the occasion, the protestors demanded of the concerned authorities to take immediate measures in the matter, otherwise they have threatened to enlarge their protest level.