KARACHI:Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah held a follow-up meeting with a four-member world Bank delegation led by its Country Director Mr Patchamuthu Illangovan to finalize three important projects for megacity, Karachi.
The meeting was attended by Ms. Melinda Good, Operations Manager, Ms. Amena Raja, Operation Officer, Saiyed Shabih Ali Mohib, Program Leader of World Bank, and Chairman P and D Mohammad Waseem and others.
The meeting the Urban Management Project. Under this project the capacity building of KMC and six DMCs would be developed and institutional reforms would also be introduced there.
Under this project ways and means would also be explored and implemented for enhancement of property tax in the city.
Under Urban management project institutional reforms would also be introduced in Karachi Water and Sewerage Board. Metering and billing system would also be established along with major restructuring the board.
Under the project, a Treatment Plant known as TP-IV of 200 MGD Korangi would also be installed.
The meeting also discussed the Yellow Line project. The World Bank, in principal, has agreed to construct the entire infrastructure of BRT Yellow Line starting from Dawood Chowrangi to Numaish. It would be a 21 km long project.
The chief minister said that there were some procurement issues in 12 ongoing World Bank projects in Sindh. These projects have 12 different project directors and they all were making procurement on their own but through different time-consuming approaches. He proposed the World Bank to set up a separate unit under which procurement for all the World Bank projects could be brought under one umbrella.
The meeting decided that the World Bank officers would hold another meeting with Chairman P and D to give final shape to the projects so that they could be approved in the third meeting.