Sindh: Low-cost housing project reviewed

[Naveed Yaseen]

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Wednesday that the present elected government was fully committed towards following the programme of the Pakistan People’s Party and policies of Benazir Bhutto to provide ‘Roti, Kapra and Makan’, and provision of 10,000 houses to poor people of Sindh by the end of the current financial year.

Shah said this at the Chief Minister’s House while presided over a meeting regarding the establishment of ‘Benazir Bhutto Basti’ at various places under the low-cost housing programme.

Shah said that if the federal government or any donor agencies wished to volunteer, the number of houses could be increased.

An official handout stated that Provincial Minister Housing Agha Taimoor Khan, and Special Assistant to CM and Chairman People’s Housing Cell Ziaul Islam gave a detailed briefing with suggestions to revise the project.

It was decided in the meeting that 300 bastis (villages) would be constructed by the end of this year with at least 36 houses in each district and that the name of the project would now be ‘Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Housing Program for Sindh’.

Sindh Chief Secretary Fazal-ur-Rehman, Additional Chief Secretary (Planning and Development) Nazar Hussain Mahar, Sindh Board of Revenue Senior Member Ghulam Ali Shah Pasha, Secretary to CM Syed Sohail Akbar Shah, Land Utilisation Member Abdus Subhan Memon, Special Secretary Finance Naheed Shah Durrani and Representative to Sindh Rural Support Organisation Sono Kangrani also attended the meeting.

Establishment of Zulfikarabad: Sindh CM Syed Qaim Ali Shah held a high-level meeting at the CM House about the establishment of a new city, namely Zulfikarabad, near Jherruck in District Thatta.

Shah said that the Federal government, in recognition of services rendered by Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had decided to establish the city in his remembrance.

Earlier, Ghulam Ali Shah Pasha, Abdus Subhan Memon and Sindh Cane Commissioner Nazar Muhammad Baloch had presented a detailed briefing about the proposed city. Two separate proposals about availability of land were presented in the meeting, while various other decisions were also made. staff report

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