Traders assured of restoring road infrastructure
According to instructions of the CM, all the departments concerned are cooperating and all major works to restore the road infrastructure would start once the Sindh cabinet released the already-approved Rs1.1 billion. PHOTO: FILE
Site Industrial and Trading Estate (SITE) Managing Director Ghazanfar Ali Qadri has assured Hyderabad Chamber of Small Traders and Small Industry of addressing the issue of dilapidated road infrastructure and other challenges being faced by SITE Hyderabad.
He said this while presiding over a follow-up meeting of SITE Hyderabad Works and Sindh Small Industries Works’ committees at the office of SITE Hyderabad on directives of caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Justice (Retired) Maqbool Baqir.
He said no stone would be left unturned to fix infrastructure issues at SITE. According to instructions of the CM, all the departments concerned are cooperating and all major works to restore the road infrastructure would start once the Sindh cabinet released the already-approved Rs1.1 billion. He directed SITE Hyderabad estate engineer to immediately resolve problems pertaining to the blocked drainage system while ensuring improvement of water supply.
He said all encroachments in the area would be removed soon as they were already discussed with the Hyderabad deputy commissioner, while law enforcement agencies would take up the matter and no negligence would be tolerated in this respect.
He also emphasised that the installation of street lights would be completed soon.
Hyderabad Chamber of Small Traders and Small Industry President Muhammad Farooq Shaikhani stressed the need for resolving the burning and immediate issues including the removal of encroachments, installment of street lights, cleaning of drainages and quick demarcation of 300 acres of land allotted in 2007.
He said the last elected government of Sindh had approved Rs1.1 billion to revamp the run-down road infrastructure of SITE Hyderabad in the last cabinet meeting. “Now, it is the discretion of caretaker chief minister of Sindh when to release the amount.”
Inveighing against the government, he said the government kept demanding that business leaders play a role in bolstering the economy, but it kept imposing new taxes and was unable to ensure proper facilities to industrialists and the business community.
He said the business community not only asked the government to take necessary steps for industrial revolution but also provided it a roadmap.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2023.
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