KARACHI: City govt to build more roads, says Nazim
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Dec 21: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has said the city government is not only committed to help improve the condition of the dilapidated roads, but, it will also lay a network of new roads and flyovers throughout the metropolis.
He was speaking at a largely attended foundation-stone laying ceremony of a two-way road being constructed in Malir Town from Saudabad Chowrangi to Khokarapar No 4. Malir Town Nazim Azam Ali, Naib Nazim Mohammad Wasim Mirza and Nazims of different union councils were also present on the occasion.
Mr Naimatullah said that the development schemes included in the Rs29 billion Karachi Package on their completion would strengthen the city’s fragile infrastructure and bring improvement in water supply and sewerage system.
Lauding the president for evincing keen interest in the city’s development, he said that it was because of his (president) sincere efforts that the city’s stakeholders had agreed to contribute their share in the uplift plans of the mega city.
Reiterating that each single penny of the Karachi Package will be spent in a transparent manner, he said that the number of development projects undertaken during the last 22 months had no parallel in the city’s history.
Giving details of the road being constructed from Saudabad Chowrangi to Khokarapar No 4 at an estimated cost of Rs13.6 million, he said that the road would have six-feet wide central island. The road, he added, would be carpeted with 8,000 curve- stones to be affixed on its either side, besides having 400 reflectors.
To a demand concerning extension in the last date for getting Computerized National Identity Cards, the City Nazim said that he would take up this matter with the higher authorities.
Malir Town Naib Nazim Mohammad Wasim Mirza informed the gathering that out of the four new colleges, which the town administration had built during the last two years, teaching in two colleges had already begun while other two colleges would start functioning soon.
About the 36-bed hospital being built in the town, he said this project was in the final stages of completion.
Meanwhile, City Nazim Naimatullah Khan instructed the Works and Services Department to immediately carry out the repair and patchwork on the G.A. Allana Road.
He issued these orders when a delegation of Prince Karim Aga Khan Imami Ismaili Council called on him at his office. The delegation apprised him about the problems being faced by pedestrians and those residing in the vicinity of different Jamaat Khanas, particularly those situated at Lasi Parra, Kharadar and Clifton.
Highlighting the problems, the head of the delegation, Karim Qurban Ali, informed the Nazim that heavy encroachments in the vicinity of their Jamaat Khanas and frequent movement of trucks and long trailers on a road near Lasi Jamaat Khana had made the lives of pedestrians and those residing near these Jamaat Khanas miserable.
The delegation also told the Nazim that unauthorized parking in the surrounding of Clifton Jamaat Khana and faulty traffic signal of a nearby road had become a source of nuisance for the motorists as well as residents of the locality.
Mr Naimatullah directed the representative of DIG Traffic to deploy more policemen during prayer timings near Jamaat Khanas. He also instructed the Traffic Engineering Bureau to install more traffic signals in the surroundings of Jamaat Khana, besides rectifying the fault of the signal, which was lying out of order for a long time.
On being told that the Lyari’s Mir Mohammad Baloch Road was lying in dilapidated condition, the Nazim asked Lyari Town Nazim Abdul Khaliq Juma, who was also present at the meeting, to immediately undertake repair work of the road.
The meeting was attended, among others, by the Imami Ismaili Council’s member Sardar Khan and SSP Traffic Ghulam Jamil.
