KARACHI, June 11: The City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, on Sunday told citizens that Karachi would be a developed city in two years.

He met people on this visit to the Landhi abattoir, Aiwan-i-Riffat, Karsaz, National Stadium, Hassan Square Flyover, Gharibabad, Liaquatabad and Nazimabad underpasses, Garden, Pak Colony and Abul Hassan Isfahani Road and reviewed ongoing uplift projects.

He said that uplift projects worth more than Rs50 billion were near completion, after which economic activities in the city will get accelerated.

He said work on the tallest building of Pakistan would begin by the end of the current month.

The nazim hoped that new projects would provide jobs to some 40,000 youths. He directed officials to carry out a campaign against illegal slaughterhouses.

He said to meet shortage of doctors, 36 more doctors should be employed on contract basis and each town should be provided with two doctors, so a campaign against illegal slaughtering could be launched and citizens could be provided with quality meat.

He asked that a tender for Aiwan-i-Riffat should be re-issued within a week and work on this lingering project should be started by July 15.

He said that presently work was in progress, day and night, on 551 uplift projects in the city.

Meanwhile, on the directive of the City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board started the cleaning of storm water drains on Sunday to prepare for the upcoming monsoon season.

A meeting of the KWSB held on Saturday under the chairmanship of its Managing Director, Brig Iftikhar Haider, decided to start the cleaning of all 41 storm water drains in all towns on war footing in order to avoid blockade in draining out rainwater during the monsoon season.

The MD directed that work should be completed in the next 20 to 25 days. He also ordered making arrangements for shifting the garbage taken out of the drains to the dumping site.The Chief Engineer Infrastructure, Asood Mal, the zonal chief engineer and the superintendent engineer were present.

The water board, after dividing the city into three zones, began the first phase cleaning of drains in Malir, Landhi and Jamshed Town on Sunday.—PPI/APP