HYDERABAD, May 10: The federal government will soon announce a comprehensive policy to resolve the problems affecting Hyderabad, Latifabad and Qasimabad talukas for the past 30 years.

This was stated by the provincial minister for commerce, industry, labour and transport, Mohammad Adil Siddiqui, while speaking at an open kutchehry at the local circuit house here on Thursday.

Experts, he said, believed that an amount of Rs3 billion would be required to rehabilitate the city’s three talukas.

He said that the federal government had extended an assurance regarding solving problems affecting various cities of the province.

Warning transporters of strict action, Mr Siddiqui asked them to acquire fitness certificates for their vehicles according to rules and regulations within the next 20 days. He also called for immediate removal of tape-recorders and pressure horns.

Referring to complaints about vehicles plying within the city, the minister said that he had already ordered a detailed inquiry in this regard and had directed officials not to issue route permits till its finalisation.

He said that in future, route permits would be granted in consultation with the traffic police and the elected representatives of the respective areas.

The process of eviction, dislocating people from the kutchi abadis located on railways’ lands, had been stopped for the time being, adding that a strategy in this connection would be evolved in consultation with the federal minister for railways.

Referring to the destruction of the local bangle and shoe industries, the provincial minister said that the Sindh government was preparing a comprehensive policy to promote the cottage industry.

The Sindh government, he said, was trying to reactivate seven major and 17 small industrial estates in the province to generate job opportunities for the people.

He said the government had also trying to encourage and facilitate local investors to invest in the province.