KARACHI, July 28: Work on a new road connecting Surjani Chorangi with the Super Highway will start soon as final approval for the project has been given, says Nazim Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal.

He was addressing during a meeting with chairman of the House Building Finance Corporation Zaigham Mahmood Rizvi here on Friday.

He said after the road’s construction, people living in Surjani and adjoining areas would not have to come to Nagan Chowrangi or Sohrab Goth to reach the Super Highway.

Mustafa Kamal said that in less than nine months, a foreign investment of $90 million hads been made here with the efforts of City District Government Karachi.

These projects were not merely on paper, but work on them had already started, he said, adding that incentives and maximum facilities would be provided to local investors interested in CDGK projects. The city government did not linger on in taking decisions, he said.

The City Government, he said, had carried out fast-track development works during the past nine months and had taken a number of steps to provide facilities to people.

City Nazim pointed out that there would have been a water crisis in the city overshadowing the current power crisis if the K-III project had not been completed ahead of schedule. He said that the potential crisis had been averted because the City Government had planned in advance and people were supplied enough water during the summer.

He said ongoing projects made him feel as if Karachi was being constructed anew as nothing had been done in the past for its reconstruction and development, adding that no planning had been done.

For the first time, he informed, work was being done on the Master Plan.

Referring to the balloting of 80-square-yard plots and the start of work on infrastructure in Taiser Town, he said that construction of better roads was under way and soon shelter would be provided to thousands of people.—APP