ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Sindh government has assured to remove encroachments on 3,400 acres of land in the Karachi coastal area to facilitate installation of windmills producing renewable energy.

Alternative Energy Development Board Chairman Air Marshal (retired) Shahid Hamid told newsmen here that Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim had assured the board that the land would be vacated as soon as the local body elections were over.

He was talking to media on the sidelines of an international seminar on indigenous development of innovative technologies in renewable energy.

The board chief said he had warned the officials concerned of the Sindh government to remove the illegal occupation, otherwise he would have no option, but to highlight the issue in the national media.