KARACHI: 10,000 acres for new industrial estates: CM
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, March 1: The Sindh government in a bid to provide improved medical facilities to people living in rural areas has announced an additional Rs4,000 and Rs5,000 for doctors of grades 17 and 18 respectively and Rs3,000 for nurses to attract them to perform duties in rural health centres and hospitals.
This decision of the Sindh cabinet was announced by Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim after presiding over the cabinet meeting held at New Sindh Secretariat on Thursday.
The chief minister told journalists that the government had decided to make 10,000 acres of land available for creating new industrial estates in Karachi and other towns of the province. The cabinet, he said had set up a committee to check increasing traffic incidents by making recommendations to make fatal accidents a non-bailable offence and suggest measures to ensure enforcement of traffic laws.
The cabinet also repealed the department of implementation created recently within the Services General Administration and Coordination Department. With its winding up, the office of Additional Chief Secretary (Implementation) assigned was also abolished.
The chief minister giving the back ground for this action said that the new department was giving an impression it was a parallel office to that of the chief secretary as there was already an implementation cell working in the Sindh GAD department and implementation was being monitored by the Chief Minister’s Inspection Team. He said Mr Mehar’s services, a federal government officer, would be utilised either in a federal or some other provincial government department.
The chief minister said the ministerial committee, which was set up for the planning department would continue its working and help in better planning.
The cabinet deferred the decision of increasing the property registration fees and formed a committee comprising revenue minister Dr Magsi, provincial adviser Kishanchand Perwani and M.A. Jalil, The committee had been asked to make recommendations by the next budget.
The cabinet also decided that in future no societies, housing schemes and corporate schemes would be allotted land where there was no provision for playgrounds were made. Likewise, no private sector schools, colleges and universities would be issued NOC or charter until there was provision for play grounds.
Youth affairs minister Qamar Mansoor, told journalists that all those playgrounds which were turned into public parks or had been encroached upon would be vacated with the help of the district governments and police. He also said that the cabinet had also decided that all district, city and taluka governments would apportion two per cent of their budget for sports.
Labour and Transport minister Adil Siddiqui said that a present in cases of fatal traffic accident, the crime was bailable, a committee comprising the secretaries of law, transport and home departments would recommend that it be made a non-bail able crime.
The cabinet offered Fateha for those killed in Samjhota Express bomb blast and for Punjab Provincial Minister Zille Huma Usman who was killed by a fanatic.
