February 11, 2010
By Irfan Aligi
"Funds worth Rs 1153.86 million approved to CDGK"
KARACHI: The signal free corridor-IV cycle of projects have now completed after construction work of two pivotal segments including one flyover in the vicinity of PIDC and the other on Jinnah International Airport that were pending due to availability of funds has been initiated.
The construction work would be initiated in 15 days.
City nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has officially performed groundbreaking ceremony of these two flyovers on Tuesday and Wednesday night.
The SFC-IV would complete in four months including newly added later two flyovers. The funds that were in paucity earlier and had prevented starting the construction have now been fully arranged and in hand.
The completion of these two major segments of SFC-IV would cost Rs 289.94 million and Rs 263.92 million respectively.
City District Government Karachi (CDGK) would further launch construction work on 2 more flyovers on SFC-IV at Malir Halt and Malir 15 in March 2010 with an estimated cost of Rs 600 million.
These two major SFC-IV projects would play an important role making a route commencing from Jinnah Flyover to Steel Township and from Toll Plaza on Superhighway to Karachi Port Trust on either side.
Speaking on the occasion, City nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal claimed that the concept followed by physical presence of SFCs in city has paved concrete ways to boost Pakistan’s economy as these have added to new means of communication and the transportation of goods across the country and for the entire region has been accelerated. This acceleration has started paying back and would improve further.
As well, people’s movement on intercity and interprovince level would also be affected positively due to shortening of the passage and end of traffic gridlocks, which in return would help save foreign exchange spent on fuel import, said Kamal.
The process of development has been reshaped from top to bottom in all aspects such as saving of time and cost. Henceforth, the scope of further mega scale projects has impressively risen, he vowed.
While explaining the philosophy of U-turn in response to a question, city nazim said that the claims that none could dare give a U-turn to city’s development was basically oriented keeping in view the change in peoples’ mindset, which was being embossed by the idea of owning the city and everything of the city. This vital change would not sit calm on issues and conversely, the improvement of facilities would go around like the moving wheel of the economy.
In reply to another question, Kamal said that the politics of groups and dividing the city into fragments based on any ideology would not work any more in the city because the people of the city have plainly witnessed provision of facilities and delights of development works at their door step and above all without any sign of discrimination, which was the landmark of CDGK.
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