HYDERABAD: President of Hyderabad Chamber of Small Traders and Small Industry (HCSTSI) Muhammad Farooq Shekhani stated that Hyderabad city is facing the worst period in history due to absence of facilities and especially the Hyderabad site infrastructure has reached the verge of destruction.
He said the sanitation and deplorable condition of the site area has completely deteriorated. Unsanitary and contaminated water is being supplied to the site area. After the rains and flood situation, potholes on the roads which are causing irreparable damage to the transport.
President HCSTSI stated that the drainage system is also completely destroyed due to accumulation of dirty water in the surrounding areas; water borne diseases like dengue, malaria and diarrhea are spreading rapidly. He expressed these views while addressing a delegation of Hyderabad site industrialists who called on him to congratulate office bearers and executive committee members on assuming office and to inform them about their problems.
President Chamber Farooq Shekhani further said that for solving the industrial problems of the site area, the managing director of the site was contacted many times and letters were also written, but no adequate response was given by him. He has strongly demanded from Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and Provincial Minister for Industry and Commerce Jam Ikramullah Dharejo that Hyderabad is the second largest business city of Sindh after Karachi, Hyderabad’s industrialists pay the highest taxes to the government.
Even then many industries and factories are suffering from all these conditions in the site and it is feared that industrialists will take their capital to other provinces and Sindh province will lose investment, because many industrialists have already shifted their capital to other provinces where basic facilities are available. Practical steps should be taken to resolve these problems as soon as possible with the consultation of the industrialists, so that the problems of the industrialists of Hyderabad site would be solved.
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