Marigold show draws thousands of visitors to Frere Hall Park
Karachi
January 23, 2021
It is highly unlikely to not be dazzled by beautiful arrangements of marigold flowers being displayed at the Frere Hall premises when you pass through Abdullah Haroon Road.
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) Parks and Horticulture Department has adorned the British-colonial era Frere Hall with various colours of marigold flowers, as it is celebrating the city’s first marigold festival that will last till Sunday.
The gardens of the Frere Hall are decked out in circles of orange and yellow marigold flowers, while the white ones are either delicately perched in the middle or at the boundary like white doves. These flowers are further circled with blue and white stones at which light is thrown after sunset.
Sindh govt decides to give control of KIHD to NICVD
Karachi
January 23, 2021
The Sindh government has decided that the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) will assume the control of the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD) in order to uplift the status of the latterâs healthcare services.
Provincial law and environment adviser Barrister Murtaza Wahab announced this to media persons on Friday after inaugurating the newly reconstructed monument at Fawara Chowk in Saddar.
Barrister Wahab, who also acts as the spokesman for the government, said the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation was unable to properly run the KIHD. âThat is why the decision has been taken to transfer the control of the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases to the NICVD in order to provide the people of Karachi with an improved and upgraded healthcare facility,â he said.
Road between Super Highway and National Highway to be rebuilt
Karachi
January 21, 2021
The Sindh governmentâs Public-Private Partnership Policy Board has approved the reconstruction of a link road between the M-9 (Super Highway) and the N-5 (National Highway) in Karachi.
The decision was taken during a meeting of the board held with Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in chair at the CM House on Wednesday. The meeting was told that the 21.8-kilometre link road between the M-9 and the N-5 needed to be rebuilt. During the boardâs previous meeting, the project had been approved for investorsâ solicitation. The board now approved awarding the contract to the bidder and signing the concession agreement.
Karachi
January 20, 2021
Sindh law and environment adviser Barrister Murtaza Wahab has said one of the district municipal corporations in Karachi has been able to cut down its monthly fuel expenses by Rs12 million by improving its efficiency and public deliverance under the provincial government-appointed administrator as being in-charge officer.
Wahab, who also acts as the spokesman for the provincial government, said this on Tuesday while addressing a ceremony to distribute post-retirement dues among 150 former employees of the DMC Korangi. The retirees had been waiting for their dues for the past six years.
He said the monthly expense of the DMC Korangi had been Rs20 million in the past, but it had been brought down to merely Rs8 million by keeping an eye on elements involved in pilferage in the past. He said the DMC Korangi had been able to pay the post-retirement dues of its former employees without any additional funds or authority.