KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed planning and development (P&D) department to start inspection of the roads being constructed in the province through Annual Development Programme (ADP), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and maintenance and repair (M&R) head.
Presiding over a meeting, he constituted a committee under P&D Chairman Mohammad Waseem with the task to review the status of each and every scheme, including the release of funds, utilisation of funds, pace of work and quality of work. The members of the committee would be secretaries of all the departments and P&D director general.
The government has launched 488 road sector schemes in which 396 are on-going and 92 are new. The approved cost of the schemes is Rs25,772 million against which the government has released Rs15,209 million and the expenditures are Rs6,998.8 million.
There are eight on-going building schemes launched for Rs228 million against which Rs65.4 million have been released and the expenditures are Rs9.4 million.
Minister for Works Imdad Pitafi told the meeting that 41 road sector schemes would be completed by June 2018. He added that nine schemes were completed by October 2017 and 13 road sector schemes would be completed by December 2017.
The chief minister said that he has given Rs3.4 billion for maintenance & repair of 23 roads. He directed P&D chairman to constitute an inspection team to visit M&R works to ensure their quality.
