Mayor Of Karachi Inspects Development Works In Korangi
Sumaira FH Published April 25, 2018 | 07:46 PM
Mayor of Karachi, Wasim Akhtar said suburban areas have also been focused in the development works to provide better civic amenities to people residing or working in all such areas of the city.
KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Apr, 2018 ) :Mayor of Karachi, Wasim Akhtar said suburban areas have also been focused in the development works to provide better civic amenities to people residing or working in all such areas of the city.
He said that the construction of road in Korangi Bilal Colony was long-standing demand of the local residents and its completion at the cost of Rs 20 million would certainly prove helpful for residents of Bilal Colony and other problems will also be solved soon.
He said this while talking to media representatives during a visit to Korangi Bilal Colony to review and inspect construction of road and other works in the area, said a statement on Wednesday. He was accompanied by the vice chairman of DMC Korangi Syed Ahmer Ali, City Council Parliamentary leader Aslam Shah Afridi, Chairman Land Committee Syed Arshad Hassan, Director General Works Shahab Anwer, Union Council Chairman and other elected representatives and officers.
The Mayor said Korangi is an important area which also has the biggest industrial zone where thousands of local people are employed and they need to have better infrastructure facilities in this area.
He said whatever funds are made available used in these development works like road construction and carpeting, repairing and maintenance of water and sewerage infrastructure and other betterment works.
He said different areas of Korangi had been facing problems due to broken roads and leakage from sewerage lines and dumping of garbage and waste on roads and streets. However, present local government leadership was busy in solving all such issues and we have adopted this strategy to carry out development works under full coordination with the union council chairman concerned and the district administration and the results are quite better.
He said that encroachments are another important issue in the city and all such hurdles in the development activities will be removed immediately
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