Work for people to bring positive change in country: Wahab

Reviews progress on road project, says people best judge of his performance

KARACHI:

Change can be brought by working for betterment of the people not from just claims, said Administrator Karachi Murtaza Wahab on Sunday.

The main artery connecting Central District with East District is being constructed at a cost of Rs450 million and the 5.5 kilometer-long road will be completed before June 30.

Before carpeting, underground works including water lines, sewerage and drainage systems will be completed, the administrator expressed these views while addressing the ground breaking ceremony of road restoration and reconstruction works from Cafe Pyala Gulberg Chowrangi to Rashid Minhas Road UBL Sports Complex.

On the occasion Deputy C o m m i s s i o n e r a n d Administrator Central District Taha Saleem, Director General KDA Syed Muhammad Ali, PPP Central District President Masroor Ahsan, General Secretary Dil Mohammad, Information Secretary Shehzad Majeed, senior officers of KMC and KDA and a large number of citizens were present.

The Administrator Karachi said congratulated the people of Karachi and all those who love Pakistan and returned to old Pakistan. He said that three and a half years have passed in chaos, unemployment and inflation but now everyone has to work together for the development of Pakistan and their city.

"For the first time in history, the National Assembly has sent Prime Minister home using its constitutional powers. We expect a fair distribution of electricity, gas and resources from the federal government.

I hope the federal government will now take an interest in the affairs of Sindh province and the problems will be solved," he added. Wahab said that Shahra-eNoor Jahan in Central District will be rebuilt at a cost of Rs1.1 billion and on April 21, he will be laying the foundation stone.

He said that water, sewerage and drainage works will be completed before the construction of the road. The Karachi administrator said that Iqbal Park will be constructed in Block-14 Federal B Area for which PC-1 has been prepared and funds are already allocated and available.

In response to a question from the media, he said that the people of Karachi will decide whether the last four years before were good or these eight months during his administrator ship are better. He said that in DMC Central, 100 parks planned by the administration for renovation, 25 parks have been opened to the public.

"No additional resources were used and all this was possible only because of hard work, dedication and attention. The journey of improvement is going on and will continue," said the Administrator.