Fishermen community is concerned over the sudden stoppage of uplift work undertaken to develop the Mubarrak Village as modern village. Talking to Business Recorder, fishermen said that the government had aborted its development work at the village just before the assembly dissolution for unknown reasons.
In 2009, Chief Minister Sindh, Qaim Ali Shah had announced to develop Mubarrak Village on modern lines and construction work was started there. "The government installed electricity facilities, erected poles, sewerage, education, healthcare and other projects of basic amenities in the area," they said. After completion of half of the projects, they said the government stopped development work and aborted the model village plan without any justified reasons.
"Now in half of the area, poles, PMTs, electric wires, etc, are installed to supply power to residents while the rest is still awaiting the government's response to have infrastructure for basic amenities," they added.
They said the government had released funds to the concerned authorities for electrification of the village but power supply had not been started yet, which worried the entire community.
Development of the basic infrastructure has also been left half completed which includes building of sewerage systems and construction of new roads in the area to boost communication links of the village with the rest of the city, they said.
They complained the government had also stopped process of leasing of the village after just 10 percent of residents were given lease documents to own their houses.
They said that there had been a dam construction project, besides a harbour, which the government had announced, but both key infrastructure uplift schemes could not begin.
However, they said the government has built a maternity home in the village, which is still without staff to facilitate the area people. They said the sudden halt to the development work in the village was beyond their comprehensions.
"There may be huge irregularities in funds utilisation which caused a sudden halt to the million of rupees development projects in the village," they apprehended. They demanded of the government to probe into the sudden halt of development work in the village and ascertain reasons what had brought the projects to a standstill. They wanted the government should complete all projects to provide relief to the city's far-flung community.
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