KARACHI, April 4: Work on another signal-free corridor from Nagan Chowrangi to Sharea Faisal would commence in May and complete by the year’s end. This was announced by Karachi Nazim Mustafa Kamal while addressing a press conference at the DCO camp office on Wednesday. In addition to the corridor, he said, work on nine major thoroughfares, a centralised blood bank and dozens of water and sewerage projects would be completed this year.

Mustafa Kamal said four flyovers would be part of the corridor. The flyovers would be built at Nagan Chowrangi, Gulshan Chowrangi, Jauhar More and Millennium Mall, he said.

About the Sohrab Goth flyover, he said the project would be ready in the next three to four months. Besides, he said Malir Bridge, I.I. Chundrigar Road, 5000 Road from Sakhi Hassan to Surjani, Shahrah-i-Pakistan, 12000 Road linking Landhi and Korangi, University Road, Altaf Hussain Barelvi Road, 9000 Road in New Karachi Industrial Area, Azeempura Road in Shah Faisal and Shahrah-i-Orangi would be completed this year.

Referring to water supply situation in the areas of Manzoor Colony, Muslim Colony, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Clifton, Old City Areas, Lyari and others, he said the city government and the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board were taking all-out measures to solve problems of the neglected areas.

He said work on three projects was underway to provide 4mgd additional water to Clifton. “The completion of three projects on University Road, Sharae Quaideen and near Lilly Bridge will result in smooth water supply to the Clifton area and bring further improvement in the old city areas, including Saddar”, he added.

He said the work on pre-cast storm water drainage system in Clifton would be completed in next two months while all water and sewerage lines in the four industrial zones would be replaced by the end of this year.

To cope with any disaster, a centralised blood bank would be established near the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He said the blood bank would cater some 500 donors at a time. Besides, he said the city government would construct three satellite hospitals of the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases in Landhi, Shah Faisal and at the junction of Orangi and Baldia towns.

As far as recreational facilities were concerned, he said, the city government would develop ‘Kite Park’ on 160 acres in Rehri Goth on the pattern of Disneyland. He said the first phase of the construction would be completed this year and the whole project would be ready in June 2008.