KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has told the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that after education the other top priorities of provincial government are water, sanitation, urban transport and improvement of road network, and the government needs assistance of the ADP.
This he said while holding a meeting with a delegation of Asian Development Bank led by its Director General, Central West Asian Department (CWRD) Werner Liepach.
The chief minister said that the top priorities he has assigned to education, health, water and sanitation, urban transport, improvement of road network. “The overall improvement of social sectors is need of hour and we are focusing on it,” he said.
Shah said that his government has conceived a plan to install desalination plant to provide drinking water to the people of Karachi megacity. He added a similar water supply and drainage schemes are being planned for other districts of the province also.
The Asian Bank DG assured the chief minister of technical and financial support. It was agreed that the provincial government through PandD department would provide details of the proposed desalination plants, water and drainage schemes to the PandD.