KARACHI, Aug 25: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Friday announced construction of flyovers at Banaras Chowk and in front of Valika Hospital with the construction of new roads.

The nazim also handed the sewerage and water supply systems of the SITE Town's UC-5 Pathan Clony, Frontier Colony and Bawany Challi to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board.

Speaking at a public meeting after inaugurating a pumping station at Bawany Challi, the nazim said the present leadership of the city was making efforts to supply water and provide sewerage system to every house.

He made it clear that the city government would first solve water and sewerage problems and then construct roads so that once these are constructed, these are not uprooted again.”

The nazim said water and sewerage lines do not accrue us any political benefits because these lay buried under the ground and once something is buried, people don't remember them for long.

Still, he said, attention was being paid on water and sewerage problems right from the beginning for their being basic problems of people.

Mustafa Kamal pointed out that ambitious people spend millions to grab coveted posts, but he was previously a minister and now a city nazim, but spent not a single rupee for these offices and, therefore, there is no ground for him to misuse his position.

He said politics has become a business and it is the system of our society. But we are serving people and problems of all areas are being solved without any discrimination.

Mr Kamal said the Haq Parast leadership is serving people without discrimination of caste, colour and creed.

“It is our mission that wherever human beings are settled, their problems should be resolved”, he said, adding “we believe in action”.

It was for this reason that when he was told that water was not reaching houses constructed at higher altitude, he has come to inaugurate this project, Mustafa Kamal said.

Site town nazim Izharuddin Ahmed Khan and naib nazim Syed Badshah also spoke.

The pumping station is set up with a cost of Rs3.5 million and will help boost water to those localities of Bawani Chali, Pathan Colony and Frontier Colony which are located higher altitude.

Meanwhile, Mustafa Kamal on Friday directed all EDOs to gear-up the pace of work on uplift projects in the city and ensure their completion before Ramazan.

Addressing a meeting of EDOs, Mr Kamal asked them not to start work on new projects before Eidul Fitr and complete work on the ongoing projects a day before Ramazan wherever possible.

He called for special measures to be taken in advance to control prices of the items of daily use during the holy month, adding that ‘Sasta Bazaar’ also be set up at seven locations of the city where such items be made available to consumers after bring brought directly from mills.

He strictly directed the EDOs to take immediate action against ‘ghost’ employees. For the purpose, he said, release of salaries for the staff not attending to their duties be stopped in the first phase, and their appointments be cancelled after fulfilling all legal requirements in second phase.

The meeting was told that action was being taken against 136 malaria coolies of the CDGK’s health department who had not participated in physical verification. A special committee, formed by the city nazim and comprising EDOs of finance, health and HRM was taking action against them.—APP/PPI