KARACHI: The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has delivered a comprehensive master plan for the city, which covers the essential infrastructure planning for the next 100 years, revealed Karachi Nazim Mustafa Kamal.
Kamal stated this at his Secretariat on Wednesday, while talking to an Institute of Business Management (IoBM) delegation comprising of more than 60 students and teachers, led by Dr Faisal Farooqui.
Kamal said that the city was lacking a master plan despite its geological and macro-economical importance however, the CDGK has not only governed the city well but has also actively worked on the agenda and has now developed a comprehensive master plan for the city.
Karachi’s population has rampantly increased because the natural birth rate has increased and more people from other provinces are coming to the city to earn their bread and butter. This has in turn increased the burden on the city’s infrastructure, causing it to collapse and if the CDGK had not come up with the master plan, the city would have come to a standstill in every aspect.
The governing CDGK has overcome many hurdles and has spent Rs 27 billion on laying the water and sewerage system infrastructure, something that no previous district government managed to do, said Kamal, adding that it also has the honour of completing six mega projects at one time.
It does not matter if the results of spending a huge amount of money and labour is not visible out in the open and people know that the CDGK has provided them many facilities within these three years including water and sewerage facilities, signal-free corridors, subways and flyovers, remarked Kamal.
While talking about his achievements and the difficulties he faced during the past three years, Kamal regretfully said that it was much easier to establish a park in the city than recover government land illegally occupied by influential and powerful land grabbers. He added that the menace of recovering land was the main reason that caused the delay in developing and completing many important city projects.
However, with determination and commitment to the people of the city, CDGK has managed to recover a good percent of the encroached and illegally occupied land and has established beautiful parks including the Bagh Ibn-e-Qasim at Clifton and Jheel Park at Tariq Road on the recovered land, said Kamal.
He went on to say that CDGK has provided basic facilities including water and sewerage system and road infrastructure to each and every area of the city without any discrimination of caste, creed or political affiliation. Under this policy, the CDGK has supplied water to those areas that were deprived of the basic necessity for the past 40 years, said Kamal, adding that different areas of Lyari have also been provided with an additional six million gallons of water, while for the first time in history, thousands of islanders have gotten access to potable water.
Kamal also informed the delegation about the education and healthcare sector upgrading and improvement plan undertaken by the CDGK. He revealed that the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and many other hospitals have been provided with the latest diagnostic equipment.
Kamal declared that the interest shown by the citizens of the city, especially students, in CDGK’s outstanding contribution to municipal works is a very good omen. The students and teachers of IoBM expressed their acute interest in the daily affairs of the CDGK and appreciated the fast paced development activities initiated by Kamal.
Kamal added that citizens taking an interest in the workings of CDGK will not only increase awareness of development work but will also create a sense of ownership among the people living in the city.
Earlier, the delegation was shown a 30-minute documentary on development projects undertaken by CDGK, and was then taken on a tour of various CDGK projects, particularly the Command and Control Centre. The delegation also reviewed how the staff at the Citizen’s Complaints Management Information Centre 1339 went about their work.
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