KARACHI, Dec 1: The Sindh Minister for Planning and Development, Syed Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari, on Thursday inaugurated a ‘model park’ in the Union Council No 11, Sector 7/A of Orangi Town. Speaking on the occasion, he said that the government was trying its best to improve the living standards of the people of Orangi.

He said that many projects of model parks for the town were in progress, which would help improve environment and provide citizens with healthy entertainment facilities.

He said the UC 11 model park was spread over 28,112 sq-ft and had been completed at a cost of around Rs4 million. It has facilitates of water fountain, benches, an artificial waterfall and lawn, and would facilitate some 0.5 million people of UCs 11 and 13.

Mr Bukhari said three government girls degree colleges and a boys college in Orangi Town were in their final phases of completion, adding that after 2007, the students of Orangi would not have to out of their town for graduate studies.

He said a mono-technology institute had already started its working, while an addition of 100 beds to the Qatar Hospital and construction of a 50-bed hospital in Mansoor Nagar were also in their final phase.—PPI