Sindh forms body to monitor uplift projects

KARACHI: The Caretaker Sindh government on Wednesday established a seven-member committee for monitoring the development projects under the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC).
To ensure transparency in Karachi’s multi-billion rupees development projects, the caretaker Sindh government decided to monitor the development projects under the KMC.
The Department of Planning and Development has alerted the Municipal Department to monitor, the construction of roads, underground passes, parks, and other projects involving the expenditure of billions of rupees. Meanwhile, over the directives of the caretaker government of Sindh, a seven-member team is established to monitor the projects from 21 November till 21 December.
The established committee along with relevant experts will review the quality of the development projects.
Earlier, The Pakistan Navy has expressed serious concerns over the discharge of raw sewage and industrial waste into the sea and sought cooperation from the Sindh government to remove bottlenecks in the establishment of a treatment plant near Mai Kolachi.
The issues of the marine pollution, installation of a treatment plant, expansion of Karachi Fish Harbour and others were raised by Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf during a meeting with caretaker Sindh Chief Minister retired Justice Maqbool Baqar here at CM House on Tuesday.  A spokesperson for the CM House said that the naval chief informed Justice Baqar that the navy, in collaboration with the Karachi Port Trust, wanted to install a 60 million gallons per day (MGD) sewage treatment plant near My Kolachi. –Agencies