KARACHI: The District West has three sub-divisions-Manghopir, Mominabad and Orangi where the condition of main roads, streets, footpaths, street lights, manholes and drainage lines needed a lot of improvement.
The TMC Mominabad has nine Union Committees and all of them needed a sewerage system, desilting nullahs, and streetlights, covering of manholes, repair of link roads, and repair/construction of paver blocks. The TMC Oragni has eight UCs, and TMC Manghopir has 16 UCs that need similar facilities.
All the nine pumping stations of TMC Mominabad were working but TMC Orangi’s two pumping stations, out of four, were functional. TMC Manghopir station is under construction. The performance of the solid waste management board in the district was termed unsatisfactory, the CM directed SSWMB to work properly and keep him posting their progress reports. The CM was told that the Towns have the authority to collect property tax, license fees, and other sources. At this, the CM directed the Towns to improve their financial position and deliver.
The water board COO told the CM that the Lyari pumping station faced severe load shedding, therefore disposal of wastewater remained a challenge. He disclosed that when the KWSB requested the KE to declare the Lyari pumping stations free of load shedding in return the KE sent them a bill of Rs90 million bill to provide them uninterrupted power line. At this, the CM directed KE to resolve the issue and report him.
Kiamari: At the outset two of the DC West and DC Kiamari told the CM that their districts were facing an acute shortage of water. To a question, the COO of the Water Board Asadullah Khan told the CM that the Manghopir Road was being constructed by the federal government but due to funding issues, the work has been left incomplete. He added that due to the stoppage of the work water lines have not been laid. At this, Mayor Karachi said that the project would cost Rs2 billion and if the amount was given to KMC he would not only lay the water lines but construct the 2 km incomplete road. The CM directed the secretary finance, secretary local government and Mayor Karachi to sit together to resolve the issue and report to him.
CM on the pointation of the DC Kiamari directed the district administration to construct water tanks for the public until the water supply system was developed. The Chief Minister suspended the services of the Town Municipal Commissioner Baldia Town Imdad Shah for his deliberate absence from the meeting and ordered the transfer of the TMC Mauripur Javed Qamar for his failure to improve the conditions of his area.
The CM directed all the TMCs to visit areas of their town to resolve the public issues. He directed the Secretary Local Government to carry out inspections of each and every town. Justice Baqar directed the cantonment board to work together with KMC and towns and keep their areas neat and clean. The CM ordered the meeting would be held next week so that issues of the rest of the districts of Karachi could be reviewed.