HYDERABAD, Dec 4: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Monday laid the foundation stones for a road and drainage lines from Haider Shah Aabri to Sawan Khan Gopang village, a computer lab in the Government Boys High School Tandojam and brick laying and construction of drains in Mir Colony.
The nazim said at the inauguration ceremony in Mir Colony that the district would spend Rs6.8 million on the three projects. Despite the fact that Hyderabad had remained capital of Sindh for hundreds of years its rural areas were still centuries behind as far as development was concerned, he said.
He said that it was for the first time in the city’s history since the Independence that massive development schemes had been launched in the rural areas of the district.
Mir Colony was home to educated people including professors, lecturers and teachers but the successive governments had always neglected the area over past 30 years.
He said that the district government was providing computer lab facilities in the schools of rural areas as the information technology had become indispensable in today’s world.
Briefing the nazim about the schemes, DO education works Feromal said that Rs1.9 million would be spent on Haider Shah-Sawan Khan Gopang road and drains, Rs1.1 million on computer lab and Rs3.8 million on brick laying and drains in Mir Colony.
NAIB NAZIM: District Naib Nazim Zafar Ahmed Rajput said on Monday that the district government had launched different mega projects in health and sanitation sectors to make the district a healthy and beautiful city of the province.
He said at a seminar on “health and hygienic awareness” organised by the Sindh Development Society (SDS) in collaboration with Water Aid at a hotel that though the maintenance of cleanliness was the duty of TMAs concerned but the TMAs could not perform it successfully until and unless individuals, societies and organisations cooperated.
Every organisation such as hospitals, schools, workshops, business and shopping centres that generated waste must have their own arrangement of disposing it of and the TMAs were ready to cooperate with them, he said.
He said that the district government had provided 41 garbage-lifting trucks to union councils and planned to make each union council well equipped to keep its area clean.
Mr Rajput said that the garbage lying around in the surroundings had increased health bill of individuals and organisations. In the underdeveloped countries where resources were limited, health issues could be tackled successfully only with the support of individuals, society and organisations, he said.
He said that the issue of hygienic food must be tackled by organisations concerned in a proper manner to protect people from unhygienic food.
