KARACHI: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail on Thursday presided over a meeting of the Sindh Infrastructure Development Company Limited (SIDCL) to review the development schemes in different parts of Karachi.

SIDCL GM retired Brig Sohail Abrar briefed the meeting on the ongoing projects in the city being supervised by SIDCL and those in the pipeline for the next fiscal year.

The governor asked SIDCL to complete all ongoing projects within stipulated time. The federally funded projects in Karachi would prove long-lasting and an effective source of infrastructure development which would ease life of the common man, he added.

The governor acknowledged the personal interest of the prime minister in the development of Karachi and vowed that the federal government would keep supporting the civic bodies of the city through all possible resources.

It was also informed at the meeting that the federal government was in the process of conceiving mega development projects for major Sindh cities including Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas and some other districts with a view to bringing them at par with other developed parts of the country.

Published in Dawn, April 2nd, 2021