SHIKARPUR, April 30: Sindh finance minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has said that the government is determined to design many long and short term development schemes.

He was talking to the Nazims, Naib Nazims and councillors at District Council Hall and the agriculturists, traders, businessmen and citizens of the district at the Soomro House here on Monday.

He said that packages had been prepared by the Sindh government with the assistance of the federal government to improve the drainage and sanitation system and also to establish a cadet college at the district headquarters for which a big amount had been sanctioned.

He said that during the last ten years, the rulers had plundered the national exchequer and misappropriated millions of rupees received as loans.