CM pays surprise visits to different city areas

Inspects progress of repair, reconstruction of roads, drains

KARACHI:

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah toured different areas of the city to personally inspect the ongoing repairs and reconstruction of roads, sewers, and storm-water drains damaged by the recent heavy monsoon rains.

On the CM's directives, 25 projects of patchwork of roads and repairs of sewerage lines and storm-water drains were initiated on September 16 with a completion timeframe of 45 days.

"I have to see the progress; therefore, I pay surprise visits to the areas where development works are ongoing," Shah told his local government minister Nasir Shah who, along with cabinet members Saeed Ghani, Sharjeel Memon, Waqar Mahdi, and Secretary Local Govt Najam Shah, accompanied the CM during the city tour.

The CM and his cabinet members drove through Shahrah-e-Liaquat, District South, where work on improvement and repairs of a road and a storm-water drain was in progress.

Nasir Shah, while briefing the chief minister, said that the KMC has started the work at a cost of Rs230 million which would be completed within the specified timeframe. He added that a 2.5km portion of the road was being reconstructed besides cleaning of the nullah. As much as 90 per cent work has already been completed.

The chief minister then drove to Chakiwara where Nasir Shah told him that the rehabilitation of Chakiwara Road, Lyari, was undertaken on February 22 and it would be completed by June 2023. This scheme has been launched under Karachi mega projects.

On the way, the chief minister had a brief stopover at the PPP Central Office in Lyari where workers had gathered to receive him.

Shah also visited the area around Aath Chowk where repairs and maintenance of damaged roads were in progress.

Shah directed the local government minister to ensure high quality, so that rainwater could easily be disposed of.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, October 16^th, 2022.