KARACHI: 494 drains be cleaned before rains: nazim
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, June 17: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has directed the municipal services department to clean 494 stormwater drains in various towns before the start of monsoon rains in the metropolis.
The nazim issued these directives while chairing a meeting to review the city government’s arrangements to cope with the approaching monsoon situation.
He was informed that the municipal services department had already cleaned Nehr-i-Khayyam and it started cleaning Manzoor Colony nullah. The department would also clean City Railway nullah, Saddar nullah, I.I. Chundrigar nullah, Rexer nullah, Machchar Colony and other storm water drains, the meeting was told.
The nazim also inspected some ongoing uplift projects and reviewed the pace of work.
He visited the University Road and directed the officials concerned to open the under-construction track for vehicular traffic before starting work on the other track.
On Shahrah-i-Pakistan, he asked KESC officials to speed up transfer of electric poles from the road to avoid any delay in the work. He directed the city government officials to be careful regarding the height of the under-construction road to ensure that rainwater would not enter into shops situated alongside the road and it should be drained out through storm water drain. He was briefed that out of 58 electric poles at the service road the KESC authorities were supposed to transfer 27, which was causing delay in the road construction work.
Earlier addressing a public meeting in Baldia Town on Saturday night, the nazim said that the city government was carrying out development projects worth over Rs35 billion as a result of which a visible positive change would be felt in the next couple of months, APP adds.
Mr Kamal said the road from Sector C-8 to D-4 had been constructed at the cost of Rs30 million. Besides, he said a 100-bed hospital was being constructed for the provision of better medical facilities to the people of Baldia.
He said that schemes worth Rs2 billion had been initiated for the provision of clean drinking water to the people of Orangi, SITE and Baldia towns. With the completion of these schemes, three-decade-old water problems of these areas would be solved, he said, adding that tap water would be available to every household round-the-clock.
He said water and sewerage lines were being laid in the metropolis at the cost of Rs17 billion.
He said the city government was serving the people without any distinction. He said this was for the first time that work on the development projects was being carried out in three shifts.
