Karachi Apr 01: The Ambassador of Norway in Pakistan, Robert Kvile called on City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal at his office on Wednesday. During the meeting which lasted nearly an hour, Norwegian envoy appreciated extraordinary development works performed by city government during last three and half years under Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal.
He said that other cities of Pakistan should also work on this excellent model of record development activities in short time. “Karachi has emerged as a role model for other developing countries and the world has acknowledged the fact that development activities in Karachi have provided convenience to citizens in their daily life,” he added.
Nazim Karachi on this occasion gave a detailed briefing on development works carried out in Karachi during last three and half years.He said that the city government has spent a huge amount of Rs.250 to 300 billon on the rehabilitation and improvement of city’s basic infrastructure while many new roads, bridges, flyovers, underpass have been constructed in city to solve traffic problems.
He said that the Haq Parast leadership had a good understanding of the problems of the citizens in Karachi, therefore it did not needed any home work before taking on development works and the journey of development took off just after assuming charge of City Government.
City Nazim said that the three main problems of water, sewerage and traffic were focused especially and we have succeeded in solving these problems up to a great extent while the other important sectors like health care and education were also addressed to provide better facilities to people. He said that the present city government has done more development works in Karachi if compared to the total works which have been done during the last 57 years.
He said that due to a rapid development process basic problems of Karachiites were solved quickly. City Government has taken up problems pending since last 58 years in all areas of the city without any discrimination and ensured decent life for common citizens. The projects like command and control centre and citizen’s complaints management system 1339 have helped city government in solving public’s problems immediately.
Nazim Karachi said that the government has supplied water to even those areas of city where previously they had not even imagined about it while the transport problems were solved with the construction of quality thoroughfares and two signal free corridors which have bring about significance convenience to citizens. Work on the third signal free corridor of Karachi has also been started and already 40 percent of it is complete. He said that the city government will continue doing public welfare works for the convenience of citizens.
