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Government strives to resolve citizens’ grievance at grass root level, says Rafiq Engineer

December 21, 2010
By Irfan Aligi

KARACHI: Sindh government has been striving so as to ensure the citizens get maximum relief and to minimize their grievance at grass rot level. In this regard, the lawmakers under the aegis of president Asif Ali Zardari have been playing their role through open katcheris to resolve people’s problems at their doorstep. Meanwhile, they also attend to the masses over telephone regarding their complaints and get the departments concerned engaged to proceed for the removal of difficulties. Sindh Katchi Abadis minister Engineer Muhammad Rafique Advocate has stated this while talking to media persons at Sindh Chief minister’s complaint cell at CM House on Thursday.

The minister further said that citizens should feel free to approach him while they would find that the doors of his portfolio, the Katchi Abadis were open for the resolution of their complaints.

The minister claimed that Sindh Assembly has unanimously passed the regularization of Katchi Abadis Bill for a period from 19985 to 1997 so as to provide the inhabitants with the right of ownership.

The minister also claimed that government was providing various incentives to the poor including construction and provision of free of cost houses, monthly stipends to the deserving women and to un-employed youth alongwith during vocational training.

The minister had assumed the charge of the complaint cell as for his turn and had in this regard received around 919 complaints over phone from the masses. Majority of 919 pertained to basic civic problems such as telephone, gas, electricity, water and sanitation and other general problems.

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