KARACHI, Dec 16: DCO Shafiqur Rehman Paracha held a meeting with the notables and elected representatives of the people in Bin Qasim Town to help solve their problems. The meeting was in compliance with the Sindh governor’s directive asking the Karachi DCO to take steps to solve problems of the residents of suburbs.
At the meeting, attended by the Nazimeen and officials of Bin Qasim and Gadap towns, it was decided that coordinated efforts would be made for the improvement of education and health facilities in the rural areas of Karachi.
It was decided that a joint meeting of officials and elected representatives of these areas, as well as city government officials, would be convened within a fortnight, at which decisions would be taken about the problems of health, education, water supply, sewerage and other basic amenities.
Steps will also be taken to check the cultivation of vegetables with chemically-polluted water. It will be ensured that the growing menace of use of Gutka and paan is curbed.
It was decided at the meeting that special measures would be taken about health problems, particularly those caused by Hepatitis-B.
The DCO asked the health officers to ensure that every person in Karachi’s rural areas was vaccinated against Hepatitis-B and no child was left without immunization.
HAWKESBAY SCHEME: The District Coordination Officer, Shafiqur Rehman Paracha, has directed the Lyari Development Project authorities to issue challans, for the third instalment, to the allottees of the A-3 sector of Hawkesbay Scheme meant for the members of Karachi Press Club.
The DCO issued the directive during his meeting with a KPC delegation, led by the club’s president, Sabihuddin Ghousi, at his office here on Monday.
The meeting also decided that the development work on the journalists’ residential scheme would be started soon. The delegation was assured that the KPC members would be given an on-site briefing about the development activities and informed about the anti-encroachment drive there.
The LDP authorities also held out the assurance at the meeting that the issuance of the challans would start within the next 10 days.—APP
