Provincial Minister for Planning and Development, Syed Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari has said schemes to set up engineering colleges in Larkana, Badin, and Jacobabad had been included in the Annual Development Program 2007-08.
Besides this, an engineering college for Karachi would be also be included in the ADP 2007-08, so that almost 16 million population of Karachi could be benefited, as Karachi presently had only one engineering college, which was not enough for the huge population, he said.
This he informed while presiding over a meeting held under Tameer-e-Karachi program, which reviewed uplift schemes for the year 2007-08. Additional Chief Secretary (Development), Ghulam Sarwar Khero, Director General (Monitoring and Evolution Cell), City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal, and DCO Karachi were also present.
Shoaib Bukhari informed that 56 new schemes would be started while 140 schemes were underway, for which provincial government had allocated Rs 7,484.893 million for the city government.
He directed the EDO Health to complete PC-1 for the Cardiac Emergency Centre Landhi and expansion of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital as soon as possible, so that these schemes could be imitated. The minister informed that Rs 550 million had been earmarked in the ADP 2007-08 for the construction of road networks.
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