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Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Sindh CM orders early completion of uplift schemes
Staff ReportKARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed the Works and Services Department to ensure the completion of 47 schemes for the construction of about 1800kms of roads by December 31, 2013.
He was presiding a review meeting on the development works at the committee room of Sindh Secretariat, Karachi on Monday.
Addressing the meeting, the chief minister directed the officers to give priority to those development schemes, which were on the verge of completion. He said the Finance Department has also been directed to release full funds against such schemes.
He ordered officers to ensure quality of the work and warned that in case of sub-standard quality, the officers concerned would be taken to task.
While taking notice for delay in the completion of 134km Nawabshah-Ranipur road, Shah asked officers to communicate railway authorities for getting their NOC about overhead bridges on this road and get it completed within the shortest possible time for which an allocation of Rs 268.635 million had been released.
The CM also took serious note of an accident/collision between a running train and Qingqi in District Dadu at unmanned railway crossing recently, resulting in 8 casualties.
He directed the secretary works and services department to conduct a joint survey about unmanned Railway crossing in Sindh and prepare PC-I for installation of barriers or gates at such crossings.
He added, “The Japanese Assisted Rural Road Project launched to construct 500km roads in the rural areas Sindh must be given priority and completed within the stipulated period.”
Secretary Works & Services Department Kazi Shahid Pervaiz while briefing the meeting said that out of 427 ongoing development schemes in the road sector, 76 were being completed on priority basis, which would be completed by Dec 2013. Whereas, about 47 such schemes to be completed by June 2013, he added.
He said the schemes to construct 500km under Japanese Financial Assistance 403km roads have been completed while work on the remaining schemes was continuing. He informed the meeting that the 51 schemes to reconstruct 950km roads damaged in flood 2010 have also been completed with estimated cost of Rs 12.569 million.
Sindh Minister for Works & Services Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, Advisor to CM for Finance Syed Murad Ali Shah, Chief Secretary Sindh Sajjad Saleem Hotiyana, Additional Secretary Development Arif Ahmed Khan, Secretary to Works & Services Department Kazi Shahid Pervaiz, Secretary to CM Rai Sikandar, Secretary Finance Sohail Rajput, DG Planning and Development Syed Imtiaz Shah among others attended the meeting.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk