City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal urges business community to help Pakistan prosper

Inauguration of Memon Industrial and Technical Institute (MITI):
June 1, 2009

By Irfan Aligi

KARACHI: The City District Government Karachi has paved its way to the goal of successful achievements while combating top financial challenges and beaurocratic obstacles. In this regard, one more salient addition to the outstanding performances of the CDGK toward creating resources for the citizens is the Memon Industrial and Technical Institute (MITI), which is a landmark project under the Public-private partnership initiatives.

The MITI has been designed in a way that it should prove from the very beginning a centre of excellence for preparing the youth that by any means could not avail education so that the paucity of trained and skilled manpower should be produced in abundance.

This theme has worked and very soon, Pakistan would be outsourcing these skilled manpower for a greater national interests while this would help change the “being idle attitude” that has been eating up our children like cancer.

City Nazim S Mustafa Kamal said this while addressing a huge congregation of people from all walks of life on the occasion of inauguration of MITI in Korangi Town on Sunday.

It was for the first time that the government (CDGK) had diligently pursued the private partners for the establishment of dedicated centre of excellence in city because it is not government’s job to launch projects but it should facilitate the partners. The World Memon Organization (WMO) had talked about acquiring land for welfare projects for the last eight years but their request was not entertained while they had called on almost every authority at the apex level, commented Kamal.

CDGK has chosen Korangi Town for the MITI because it is located in the vicinity of Pakistan’s largest industrial zone and those who would get trained in MITI would have a direct access to it. The technically trained youth would be able to earn upto Rs 20,000 per month after completing their training for just 24 weeks. The MITI would impart technical education to more than 4 thousand uneducated and unskilled youths annually in 30 different trades. The MITI would only charge Rs 500 from each student while the actual expenses would be around Rs 2,100 per month, claimed Kamal adding that the MITI would also offer training girls for technical courses shortly.

Kamal urged business community to come forward to establish more and more technical institutions across the Sindh province and the country so that people as a nation should take a way toward gross prosperity and self-reliance because it is the only way to bring about revolution in the lives of our people.

The anti-social elements and feudal rivals had been tagging the Haq Parasts with various negative titles but the time has proven that they are the Haq Parasts who have contributed for the prosperity and integrity of the country more than any other claimant, said Kamal.

“The Haq Parasts are the offspring of those who created Pakistan and sacrificed 2 million lives and today when the country is facing threats to its integrity, the Haq Parasts are determined to save the country at any cost,” vowed Kamal.

Kamal also vowed that the CDGK has committed to provide the WMO with land in every town so that every town should have its own MITI for the welfare of the needy youth. It is unavoidable under the prevailing circumstances because empty minds are Devil’s paradise. Providing free or extremely low-cost technical training to our youth would help curb the crime, remarked Kamal.

Kamal regretted that those who wanted to establish public welfare projects and they only needed plot of land were missing favour from the authorities while the land mafia knows no law and was blatantly occupying precious land in the city, said Kamal.

Paying tribute to office bearers of WMO for establishment of this institute, Kamal said that other communities should also join hands with the CDGK so that we as a nation could overcome several challenges such as unemployment, poverty and above all it would help the deprived youth to become a responsible citizens of the country and the industry would also benefit for having skilled manpower in abundance.

Kamal added that the construction of flyovers, underpasses and Signal Free Corridors in city have shortened the distances between different areas so the youth from across the city would find it easier to come to MITI for the training.

WMO President Haji Abdul Razzaq Yaqoob paid tribute to Kamal for completing mega projects in city with commendable speed.

He also said that the Memon community is ready to cooperate and help in the development and progress of the city. Amin Chapal, H.M Shahzad, Shoaib Ismail, Pir Muhammad Kalia and others also addressed the ceremony.

Abubakar Cassim, Aqeel Karim Dhedhi, Ashraf Machiyara, Ahmed Chinoy, MNA Abdul Rasheed Godel, MNA Asif Husnain, Korangi Town Nazim Arif Khan also attended.