KARACHI, June 6: The City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, on Tuesday said the city government had initiated several big projects in the metropolis on built, operate and transfer bases.

These projects include a bus terminal on the RCD Highway, two vegetable and fruit markets on the National Highway, an IT Plaza, parking plazas and recreational facilities at Bagh Ibn-i-Qasim and Clifton Beach Park, he added.

He was talking to a delegation of the CDGK-KCCI Liaison Committee, led by renowned industrialist Zubair Motiwala.

The delegation called on the nazim at his office to draw his attention towards water shortage and other problems at Site.

Mr Kamal said the private sector was being provided with all possible facilities to induct 8,000 CNG buses during the next four years and the government would pay interest for purchasing these buses.

He asked the industrialists and businessmen to take part in the mega projects initiated by the city government under public-private partnerships.

The city nazim told the delegation that work on the first parking plaza of the country was expeditiously under way while seven other places had also been identified to build the same facility.

The private sector will construct and run the proposed plazas, he added.

He further said the city government was also paying attention to the uplift of Karachi’s industrial zones and was making efforts to solve various problems of Site area including water shortage.

He said work on construction of roads were under way and were being completed phase-wise, adding that water supply and sewerage lines were being laid under a 40-year planning.

Orangi Town: The benefits of the K-III project have so far not reached the residents of Orangi Town, who are still enduring miseries due to water shortage.

This was stated by Abdul Quddus, MQM MPA from Orangi Town, while talking to the City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, during a meeting at the latter's office on Monday.

Mr Quddus asked the city nazim to restart the Rangers tanker service to supply water to the town, which could meet the shortage to a great extent.

Upon the legislator's suggestion to expedite pace of work on the Shahrah-i-Orangi, the city nazim told him that Rs800 million had been released for the purpose and now the work was expeditiously under way.

Mr Kamal assured the MPA of resolving all problems of Orangi town.—PPI