DASKA – Technology Upgrade and Skill Development Company (TUSDEC) has established five National Institute of Design and Analysis centres in Sialkot, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta. According to details, Ceramics Development Centre Eminabad costing Rs 321 million would be operational soon while three engineering centres in Hyderabad, Peshawar and Hub costing Rs 600 million are being set up with the financial support of Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The purpose behind the construction of these centres is to produce maximum trained and skilled industrial workforce which would help improve the overall productivity.
Daska girls college wins ASC 4th session: Government Girls College Daska won the 4th session of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) Netball Coaching, Development and Tournament Programme for Under-16 Girls at Cathedral School that was organised by the Pakistan Netball Federation (PNF) in collaboration with the ASC and Sialkot Netball Association.
In all, 200 female players and 20 sports teachers and coaches from different schools and colleges participated in the programme. Netball poles, bibs, balls, literature and other sports equipments provided by the ASC and the PNF were handed over to Sialkot Netball Association Secretary General Qazi Qasim. Eight teams participated in the Under-16 tournament while Government Girls College Daska defeated Cathedral School 4-2. Technical officials Khalid Parvaiz, Muhammad Yasir and Ajazul Haq supervised the matches while the principal of the Cathedral High School was the chief guest at the prize-distribution ceremony.
Anti-measles vaccination campaign to be launched: The Sialkot Health Department has completed all the necessary arrangements to launch the two-week long anti measles vaccination campaign in Sialkot district which would continue till January 29, 2011.
While talking to journalists, Sialkot EDO Dr Syed Talat Iqbal said that 248 special teams of the health department would inject anti-measles vaccination to 500,000 children in Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur.
Rescue 1122 saves 11,585 people: Sialkot Rescue 1122 saved the lives of 11,585 people in 11,089 emergencies in Daska, Sambrial, Pasror and Sailkot in 2010. According to the Rescue officials, the Rescue 1122 saved 5,718 people during road accidents and 487 in fire fighting, 24 people in building collapses, four in cylinder explosions, 364 in dacoity incidents, 64 in drowning cases, 60 in special rescue operations and 4,368 people in different medical emergencies, including heart attacks and delivery cases, while 8,516 people were shifted to different hospitals for early medication. They added that three emergency stations of Rescue 1122 Sialkot – Kutchery Road, Kashmir Road and Daska Road – were well equipped with advanced seven ambulances, six fire fighters, one water machine, one water rescue van, one disaster management vehicle and one special recovery vehicle (SRV).
