KARACHI: Muttahida unfolds list of uplift projects
By Our Reporter
KARACHI, April 29: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Friday unfolded details of various development works it had undertaken in various parts of the province and alleged that owing to incompetence of the local government leadership, MQM ministers had to shoulder responsibility of executing and completing various development projects.
This was claimed by Kunwar Naveed Jameel, member MQM coordination committee, in a news conference at the Karachi Press Club. Flanked by Sindh Planning and Development Minister Shoaib Bukhari, Sindh Local Government Adviser Wasim Akhtar and MPA Mohammad Hussain, Kunwar Naveed said that the MQM had to undertake many projects for improving water supply schemes, education, and health and road networks.
He said that the MQM had done extensive planning for the improvement of civic infrastructure in Karachi and rest of the province. In this regard, he said, sufficient funds had been arranged.
Kunwar Naveed said that the MQM had given priority to those areas and projects which according to him were allegedly ignored by partisan local governments. He mentioned that the projects included construction of hospitals, maternity homes, schools, colleges and community centres.
He said that Sindh government had spent more than Rs3.56 billion on various projects in health and education sector. Work on projects to cost over two billion rupees was in progress. He said that overall expenditure on such projects would be more than Rs6 billion.
He also gave details of 15 completed and 21 incomplete schemes in health sector besides 19 completed and 57 on projects in education sector. These projects included addition of 100 beds in Orangi Town Qatar hospital, establishment of 50-bed hospital in Orangi Town, Mansoor Nagar, establishment of modern trauma centre in Liaquatabad government hospital. The list also included medical facilities provided to residents of Gadap Town, New Karachi, Surjani Town, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Gulshan-i-Iqbal and Landhi, besides Hyderababad, Nawabshah, Shadadpur, Sukkur, Mirpur Khas, Badin, Thatta and other parts.
In communications sector, he said that work on Shahrah-i-Qaddafi in Orangi Town would soon be started. The project would cost more than Rs126 billion.
He also cited similar projects in North Nazimabad, Shad
man Town and other parts of the city.
