The chairman of the law and order sub-committee of the Korangi Association of Trade and industry (KATI), Nadeen Khan, urged Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah to personally supervise ongoing development work in the city. He said that complaints have been received about the use of substandard material by contractors in the construction of roads. Roads constructed about two months ago have started deteriorating, particularly around Metrolope Hotel, he added.
Be it from Shahra-e-Faisal to M.A. Jinnah Road or University Road to the National Highway, these days every main route of the metropolis is dug up for reconstruction, he added He advised the chief minister to constantly monitor ongoing development work in the city.
He stated that no efforts were being made to provide better bypasses beside under construction roads and the bypasses are so dilapidated that it leads to serious traffic congestion in the area, resulting in commuters' failure to reach offices, hospitals and homes on time. Due to extraordinary big ditches at different places in the bypass, driving of vehicles has become almost impossible. Sometimes motorcyclists lose balance and get hurt, he added.
Expressing concern over increasing incidents of street crimes and in the areas where roads development work is in progress which leads to slow down movement of traffic and provide easy target for criminals to achieve their goals. Nadeem Khan further pointed out that CPLC data revealed that in February alone, more than 2,600 mobile phones were snatched on gun point most of them in the areas where road development work is in progress. He noted that work phase two of the Korangi crossing flyover has been delayed.