KARACHI - Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed told the Sindh Assembly on Friday that admission policy for medical colleges/universities in Sindh will be announced in a couple of days as the committee constituted for the purpose has submitted its recommendations to the chief minister. Replying to a point of orders raised by PPPs Kulsoom Chandio and Abdul Sattar Rajpar, the health minister said that in the policy various issues have been addressed including the number of seats as well as the reservations being expressed by people. He pointed out that the PPP and MQM are coalition partners in the Sindh government for about one and a half years and have been working to promote understanding and harmony in the province. He said that the admission policy has been chalked out by a committee which was setup by the Chief Minister to work out solution to reservations of people and the same would be announced in a day or two. He, however, castigated the so-called nationalists and said they tried to politicise the issue to make political gain. He said it is duty of all of us to thwart their conspiracies as we have come with the votes of people to solve their problems. The minister said that the committee in its recommendations would also incorporate the political vision of President Asif Ali Zardari and MQM Chief Altaf Hussain. Earlier, PPP PMA Kulsoom Chandio, on a point of order, said that up gradation of Chandka Medical College to the status of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical University was appreciable but the seats of Dadu has been decreased from 45 to 35, and that of Larkana decreased from 41 to 32, Kashmore from 28 to 21. Similarly, she said seats of Jacobabad and Shikarpur were also decreased. The legislator from Dadu said that medical students have staged protest and visited the grave of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto against these excesses. She said that seats for the students of interior Sindh in medical colleges/universities in Karachi have also been decreased and asked the government to take notice of situation which was causing sense of deprivation among the students in the interior of the province. Abdus Sattar Rajpar, another PPP member said that students of Naushehro Feroz had reserved seats in Liaquat Medical University but now those seats have been shifted to Chandka Medical College, which would create inconvenience and problems for the students of the area. He demanded that keeping in view the difficulties of the students these seats may be reversed back to Liaquat Medical University. The house which resumed business with Acting Speaker Ms. Shehla Raza in the Chair more than one and half late beyond the schedule time of 9:30am, passed a government Bill-No-13 of 2009- The Larkana Development Authority (Revival and Amending) Bill 2009 into law. Sindh Law Minister Ayaz Soomro, through a motion moved the said bill in the house for consideration. Offering argument in the favour of bill, the law minister said that in order to give impetus and encourage the locals and home industry and to provide shelter to the people of the province, it is expedient to revive and amend the Larkana Development Authority Act, 1994. Supporting the bill, PPP members Haji Munawwar Ali Abbasi and Pir Bachal Shah, Sindh Ministers Ms. Shazia Marri and Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto, Izharul Haq of MQM said that revival of Larkana Development Authority would be beneficial for the people of province as they could get shelters on affordable prices. Sindh Minister for Local Bodies Agha Siraj Durrani said that present government was following such policies which would not only be limited to Larkana but would provide benefits to the people of whole of Sindh. We want to create more development authorities so that the people of the province could get benefits. He said the Larkana Development Authority was being revived on the orders of President Asif Ali Zardari. After hearing the viewpoint of the members, the chair put the bill in the house, which was adopted unanimously. Law Minister introduced government bill No-11 of 2009- The Sindh Building Control (Amendment) Bill, 2009. Later, the house was adjourned till Monday morning.