HYDERABAD, Nov 18: Dadu District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar has said that the Sindh government has approved the project of a road from Kotri to Khanpur which will reduce distance and travel time.

He was talking to a delegation of residents of Kotri which had called on him at his Thana Ahmed Khan residence on Wednesday. The delegation was led by former chairman of Kotri Municipal Committee Shaikh Israel.

The nazim said that the Dadu district government would soon float tenders for the construction of a building for intensive care unit in Kotri Taluka Hospital.

He said that Rs1.5 million had been released to each union council of the district, which would accelerate the pace of development in the district.

Mr Sikandar said that the district government was giving top priority to education and added that as soon as Rs300 million, saved by the district government under the head of education, was released, mega educational projects would be taken in hand.

When his attention was drawn to rampant unemployment in Kotri, the nazim said that the district government would persuade entrepreneurs to setup more industrial units in the Kotri industrial zone. He added that the local population had the first right over employment in the area.