Acting City Nazim Nasreen Jalil on Friday said that Nazim Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal had worked day and night to create better and conducive environment for investment opportunities in Karachi but the continuous load shedding of electricity and gas was adversely affecting the investment activities in the city.
She expressed these views while addressing a 82-member delegation of National Security College/University Islamabad at Civic Center here on Friday. The acting Nazim said the present local government system has proved beneficial for Karachi.
The middle class leadership has shown excellent performance in the resolution of citizens problems. Not only the World Economic Forum acknowledged Karachi as a fast emerging mega city but City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal was also declared as among worlds best mayors at the moment.
Nasreen Jalil said the people in Karachi have felt positive and refreshing change due to the development works carried out over the last three years. However, she added the city is being controlled by 13 different organisations and City Nazim has only 31 percent of total city area under his control. She said that being a most important city of the country, Karachi must not be deprived of its funds at any level.
She said Haq Parast leadership has worked in city's every area without any discrimination and for the first time in the history, potable water was supplied to those areas, which were always deprived of such a basic need of life. The city government, she said, has paid special attention on education and health sectors and upgraded CDGK-run hospitals. She said Nazim Karachi introduced a 24-hour working culture in Karachi.
Nasreen Jalil pointed out that due to having control on only 31 percent of Karachi, the city government was presently facing many challenges and therefore all the civic agencies must be brought under one command.
Speaking on the occasion, leader of the delegation Rear Admiral Tayyab Ali Dogar said acknowledged that city government has rendered exemplary performance and the transport problems were solved rapidly in Karachi. He said that a visible change has been felt in Karachi due to the development works performed by Haq Parast leadership in last three years. DCO Karachi Javed Hanif thanked the delegation for visiting City Government Karachi.