KARACHI: Mayor Wasim Akhtar has said that bad governance of the Pakistan People’s Party-led provincial governments have destroyed the city in the past 10 years.

He said that the look of the city would have changed if the funds used unnecessarily in the name of so-called development had actually been utilised to develop the infrastructure of the city

While inspecting the construction of storm-water drains by Jamiat Punjabi Sodagran-i-Delhi at Allahwala Town, Korangi, on Tuesday, the mayor said that the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation had embarked upon the task of developing this city and was making all-out efforts in this regard.

Welcoming the construction of the drain by the community organisation, he said that this would bring relief to the people of the vicinity, especially during wet seasons.

‘Potable water and sanitation facilities are major problems faced by residents’

He said that he hoped that other non-governmental organisations and association would also come forward to play their due role in the development of the city that generated a major chunk of funds in the country.

The mayor added that shortage of potable water and sanitation facilities were the major problems faced by residents of Allahwala Town and the municipal government was make efforts to solve them at the earliest.

He said that the locality would turn green in the coming years as the KMC would provide the residents over 500 tree samplings for plantation in front of their houses.

Vice chairman of DMC Korangi Ahmer Ali, chairman works committee Hasan Naqvi, chairman parks committee Khurram Farhan, DG technical service, chief engineer Korangi, representatives of Karachi water and sewerage board, former president KCCI Shamim Arif and residents of the area were also present.

Representatives of the Jamiat Punjabi Sodagaran informed the mayor that they were construction the two-kilometer drain at the cost of Rs2.25 million.

Published in Dawn, September 20th, 2018