Sindh govt promises 1,000 apartments in Lyari
CM directs local govt dept to implement Lyari Development Package
A file photo of Lyari area of Karachi. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI:
The Sindh government will construct 1,000 apartments for the people of Lyari while civic issues, such as drinking water and sewerage system, will also be improved soon.
Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah directed the local government department to take measures to implement the Lyari Development Package, which includes uplift schemes worth Rs1 billion, provision of water within three months and the establishment of Bilawal Bhutto Engineering College.
Presiding over a meeting at CM House on Tuesday, Shah said that the package includes construction of low-cost residential apartments. "I want to implement the water supply scheme within three months."
"Rehabilitation of Lyari's drainage system needs to be given first priority otherwise it will be quite difficult to save the old area in case of a heavy downpour," said katchi abadis minister Javed Nagori.
Shah directed local government minister Sharjeel Memon to upgrade the suction pumps installed to extract the sewerage water from Lyari at all the pumping stations. "Meanwhile, a survey of the rehabilitation of the old water supply line laid during the tenure of Benazir Bhutto should be conducted," he said. "The RO plants installed there should also be made operational. Our party chief has given three months and I am giving you two-and-a-half months to fulfil his promise."
According to development additional chief secretary Waseem Ahmed, Rs500 million have already been allocated for the engineering college. "The foundation stone of the college can be laid whenever the government decides."
The CM directed Memon to visit Spencer Eye Hospital and restore it. "This is a historical hospital and its leading doctors have made it an institution," said Shah. He also directed Nagori and Pakistan Peoples Party South district president Haji Qasim Baloch to identify the location for the flats. It was also decided in the meeting that the roads in the narrow streets of Lyari will be made of rolled concrete but this measure will be taken once the drainage system has been rehabilitated.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 29th, 2015.
The Sindh government will construct 1,000 apartments for the people of Lyari while civic issues, such as drinking water and sewerage system, will also be improved soon.
Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah directed the local government department to take measures to implement the Lyari Development Package, which includes uplift schemes worth Rs1 billion, provision of water within three months and the establishment of Bilawal Bhutto Engineering College.
Presiding over a meeting at CM House on Tuesday, Shah said that the package includes construction of low-cost residential apartments. "I want to implement the water supply scheme within three months."
"Rehabilitation of Lyari's drainage system needs to be given first priority otherwise it will be quite difficult to save the old area in case of a heavy downpour," said katchi abadis minister Javed Nagori.
Shah directed local government minister Sharjeel Memon to upgrade the suction pumps installed to extract the sewerage water from Lyari at all the pumping stations. "Meanwhile, a survey of the rehabilitation of the old water supply line laid during the tenure of Benazir Bhutto should be conducted," he said. "The RO plants installed there should also be made operational. Our party chief has given three months and I am giving you two-and-a-half months to fulfil his promise."
According to development additional chief secretary Waseem Ahmed, Rs500 million have already been allocated for the engineering college. "The foundation stone of the college can be laid whenever the government decides."
The CM directed Memon to visit Spencer Eye Hospital and restore it. "This is a historical hospital and its leading doctors have made it an institution," said Shah. He also directed Nagori and Pakistan Peoples Party South district president Haji Qasim Baloch to identify the location for the flats. It was also decided in the meeting that the roads in the narrow streets of Lyari will be made of rolled concrete but this measure will be taken once the drainage system has been rehabilitated.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 29th, 2015.