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NAWABSHAH, June 2 (APP): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on
Friday said that provincial government was striving hard to control
over the recent power crisis and inauguration of 100 Megawatt Nooriabad Power Plant was a step forward to overcome this crisis.
He was talking to media at zero point during his brief visit to
Nawabshah. The Chief Minister said that people were facing extreme difficulties due to power breakdowns and unscheduled loadsheding.
He said that road construction projects of worth of billions of rupees
were in full swing in the province while citizens of Nawabshah would soon get clean filter water from the Ultra Filteration Plant constructed at a cost of Rs. 1.5 billion.
Sayed Murad Ali Shah said the funds were being released for replacement
of 40 years old water pipe lines in the city, while construction of 300 bed Mother and Child Hospital and 300 bed Benazir Kidney Transplant Centre would be constructed and funds would soon be released for this purpose.
CM Sindh said that both the projects would provide latest health and
treatment facilities to the patients of Shaheed Benazirabad division and other adjoining areas.
To a question the CM said that cement lining of main
Rohri Canal was in progress in phases and the canal would be cemented during annual closure of the canals.
During visit of different roads, Project Director Engineer Moor Oad in a
briefing told that 59 KM long Nawabshah-Sanghar road was being reconstructed and widened at a cost of Rs.2366 million and would be completed by January 2018.
He told that 30 Km Nawabshah-Gupchani road had been completed and opened
for all traffic.
He said that 32 KM Nawabshah-Saeedabad road was under construction at a
cost of Rs.844 million and would be completed by December 2017.
The Chief Minister was informed that Nawabshah-Saeedabad road would also
connect Nawabshah with Khairpur and it would cater as an alternate route of Motorway by which distance between Khairpur and Karachi would be decreased by 50 Kilometer.
The provincial Minister Imdad Patafi, MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio, MPA
Saleem Raza Jalbani, Chairman District Council Jam Tamachi Unar, Commissioner Ghulam Mustafa Phull, DIG Iqbal Dara, Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Nouman Siddique and SSP Tanweer Hussain Tunio were also present on the occasion.