Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister Sharmila Farooqui, while donating five computers for the lab of a school in Lyari, has said President's Rs 500 million Lyari Development Package would bring far reaching improvement in the education, health sectors as well as in sanitation and water supply facilities.
She was speaking as chief guest at a constructive dialogue on child issues organised by Child Parliamentarians of Sparc at the Government Boys A. R. Swaleh Mohammad School Lyari. On the occasion, she donated five computers to Shah Baig Lane School's Computer Lab and said that Lyari was the heart of Karachi which was neglected in the past but now the government would develop it on modern lines.
The advisor said primary, secondary, higher secondary schools and colleges of Lyari would be renovated and equipped with furniture, computers and other required paraphernalia to provide a conducive academic environment for students of this area. Sharmila said Layariites would be provided far better facilities of parks, playgrounds and other recreational activities besides providing them adequate health facilities.
She referred to the establishment of Benazir Bhutto Medical University and upgradation of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital as a highly rated hospital besides initiating mega uplift projects very soon to redress the grievances of people. The advisor said Lyari Development Package initiated by President Asif Ali Zardari was a gift to the people of Lyari, which would bring a visible change in their living conditions.
Sharmila announced that youth of Lyari would be given government jobs on merit to enable them get rid of poverty and take them out of sense of deprivation. Sparc Provincial Programme Manager Nazra Jehan stressed the need for better education of Lyari's children who, she said, had been deprived of their basic rights and forced into bonded labour.
Nazra called for urgent steps for a better future of Lyari children and provision of all necessary facilities in the schools of this area and Sparc was striving for the achievement of the rights of children in schools. On the occasion, a resolution was also adopted by Sparc seeking extra-curriculum activities, provision of all required furniture, equipment and computers in all schools of Lyari. It also called for establishing more parks in the area.
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