KARACHI, Sept 17: For the purpose of upgrading the Karachi Medical and Dental College to the status of a university, a committee has been set up as announced by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad at the time of KMDC convocation.
The decision to set up the committee was taken at the meeting of the new governing body of the KMDC held here on Saturday under the chairmanship of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal.
The committee is headed by Dr Waqar Kazmi and its members would be Vice-Chancellor of Karachi University Prof Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui, AG Sindh Qazi Khalid, KMDC Principal Prof M. Abbas Hussain, a former KMDC principal Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed, Prof Mahmood Haider and Dr Mussarat Hussain.
The committee will look into the administrative and legal aspects with regard to the proposed upgrading, and is supposed to put forward its recommendations at the earliest.
On the occasion, Syed Mustafa Kamal expressed the hope that the KMDC would maintain high university standards after being upgraded.—APP
Our Staff Reporter adds: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has exhorted the officials concerned to expedite the patchwork of all battered roads in the city in order to make them motorable before the advent of Ramazan,
A number of major thoroughfares has developed deep potholes and craters due to recent rains and flooding and the patchwork has become necessary for ensuring a smooth flow of traffic, particularly in Ramazan as heavy rush on roads two to three hours before Iftar time is always witnessed.
Sources in the city government said that on the directives of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal, all town administrations had launched anti-encroachment campaigns which would help ease traffic congestions on roads.
They pointed out that the removal of encroachments in Saddar and Liaquatabad towns had widened many roads arteries.They said that the city nazim had impressed upon the land department officials to ensure that the encroachments removed in the campaign did not emerge again and if this happened, stern action would be taken against the encroachers and the officials showing negligence.
The sources said that the work for building and mending the roads was under way at a fast pace, in this regard, cited the examples of Hassan Square-Jail Chowrangi section of University Road and Yasinabad Bridge-Aisha Manzil section of Yasinabad Road where patchwork had already been completed.
Regard other damaged roads, the held out the assurance that citizens would see marked improvement in movement on these arteries before Ramazan as the city nazim was personally monitoring the uplift work.
