Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that work was continued day and night on the Red Line project and the University Road would be opened for traffic by the end of July. He said the public may have faced temporary inconvenience due to which the government took tough decisions and also apologized to the people.
University Road to be opened for traffic by end of July: Sharjeel
KARACHI, Jun 06 (APP): Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that work was continued day and night on the Red Line project and the University Road would be opened for traffic by the end of July. He said the public may have faced temporary inconvenience due to which the government took tough decisions and also apologized to the people.
He expressed these views while talking to the media during his review of the development work on the Red Line BRT here Saturday. On this occasion, Secretary Transport Asad Zamin, CEO TransKarachi Zubair Channa and other officials were also present.
The Sindh senior minister said that the motorway in Karachi should have been started from the city, but the opposite situation was observed in its planning. He added that Karachi is located in the last part of Pakistan and also faces a 20 percent water shortage. He said that the opening of the Bhutto Highway had provided great convenience to citizens and was also saving travel time. Police, ambulance and rescue services have been deployed on this highway so that immediate assistance can be provided to citizens, he added.
Sharjeel Inam Memon said that Karachi had the highest number of health facilities in Pakistan and that patients from all over the country were coming here for free treatment. He also mentioned the Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences in Gambat, where free and quality treatment is being provided to patients.
He further said that the Sindh government had improved roads across the province using its own resources and work was going on.
He said that the world’s largest housing project was underway in Sindh, under which houses were being built for 2.1 million low-income people. He added that the Sindh government had invested one billion dollars in Thar coal, which was generating cheap electricity and benefiting the entire country.
The minister said that a terminal was being constructed on the Northern Bypass to address Karachi’s heavy traffic issue, adding that people from all over Pakistan come to Karachi for employment and the city was bearing a significant burden of health and employment, so this fact should be considered when comparing it with other cities.
In response to a question, he said that no draft of the 28th Amendment had been prepared and that these were merely rumours, while the 18th Amendment was also supported by the MQM. The people do not take MQM-Pakistan leaders seriously either, he added.
