KARACHI: Roads with technical lacuna to be redesigned
KARACHI, Oct 21: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal inspected various road projects during a visit to different towns on Friday and decided that the roads having technical lacuna in design would be re-designed.
During the visit, the nazim said that those roads, which were constructed without drainage system, would be redesigned to meet this requirement so that sewerage and rainwater might not accumulate on roads as already many roads had suffered damage on this count.
In view of the work stopped due to utility lines on Altaf Barelvi Road, Manghopir-Garden Road, Gharibabad flyover and many other projects, it was decided to immediately convene a meeting of senior officials of KESC, water board and PTCL and find out solution to such problems.
In order to overcome the problem of leaking sewage on under-construction Garden Road, it was decided that Town Nazim Izhar Ahmed, in consultation with the city government and concerned sewerage engineer, would try to find out an immediate solution to plug the leakage so that held up work on the road could be restarted.
Mr Kamal also inspected the under-construction Sohrab Goth Flyover.
Later, the nazim directed the DCO to collect details of all such projects which had stranded because of utility lines and hold a meeting with concerned senior officers to find out a solution to the problems.
DRAINS: The city government has decided to remove all illegal encroachments, which block storm water drains or exist on such drains at the earliest, so that damages could be avoided in future in the wake of rains.
The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting, held under the chairmanship of City Nazim Mustafa Kamal, which reviewed the steps to remove hurdles coming in the way of cleaning of storm water drains and drainage of rain water.
In this regard, it was decided that the works department of city government would work out a plan within four days and submit the same to the nazim.
It was further decided that the city government would purchase heavy machinery to carry out cleaning of drains and necessary funds for this purpose would be allocated in the budget.
Mustafa Kamal told the meeting that he would personally visit the drains and review the requirements for their cleaning.
Among others, the meeting was attended by DCO Fazlur Rehman, EDO Works and other senior officials.
Meanwhile, City Nazim Mustafa Kamal said that planning had been started on scientific lines to protect Karachi against damages from any natural calamity with the cooperation of concerned experts in the field.
He said the city government would take steps in this regard in the light of recommendations of the Disaster Management committee, set up by Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad.
He was talking to newsmen at the city government’s central relief camp at Al-Markaz Islami on Thursday night.
Mr Kamal said that Karachiites had given donations for the relief of quake-hit people with open heart and the nation had given an unparalleled demonstration of national unity.
DCO Fazlur Rehman while briefing the nazim about details of relief goods said that the city government’s community development department had set up 23 relief camps in the city. The goods donated at these camps were packed at the Central Relief Camp.
He informed the city nazim that the city government had so far dispatched 20 truckloads of relief goods while remaining goods were also being sent. —APP/PPI
