KARACHI, July 9: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that citizens within the next few months will start getting the benefits of fast-paced development process launched by the city government.

“People will start getting a thousand times more facilities and benefits than the hardships and difficulties they had endured,” he said during his visit to construction sites of different ongoing development projects on Sunday.

During his five-hour long visit, Mustafa Kamal inspected the construction work of roads in Pak Colony and Orangi Town besides reviewing the progress of work on Nazimabad, Liaqautabad, Gharibabad underpasses and Hasan Square, National Stadium, Karsaz flyovers.

He also inspected the ongoing cleaning of drains and directed the officials concerned to deploy more machinery and manpower to speed up the work in view of expected rains.

He pointed out that it was the first time in the history of the metropolis that dozens of mega projects worth billions of rupees were being completed in the shortest possible time. This became possible because the work was carried out in three shifts and it was not stopped even for a single day.

During his visit to different areas of the city to review ongoing uplift projects, he asked the officials concerned to increase workforce on nullah cleaning work in wake of ensuing rains.

The city nazim directed the officials concerned to take all measures for giving additional facilities and removal of hurdles from alternative routes created due to the continuing uplift work so that the flow of vehicular traffic could be improved.—APP