KDA lodges FIR against KMC officials on May 5, 2017KARACHI: The Karachi Development Authority (KDA) on Thursday lodged FIRs at Boat Basin Police Station against officials of the Parks and Horticulture Department (PHD) and the Anti-Encroachment Department (AED) of the Karachi of Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). This step was taken after the department employees demolished an illegally-constructed boundary wall inside the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Park. […]
RO plant project fails to provide potable water in Kemari, Lyari on May 4, 2017KARACHI: Despite passage of six years, Pak Oasis Company (POC), a private contractor of Sindh government, has been failed to provide potable water in Lyari and Kemari towns, it is learnt. In 2011, Sindh government granted POC a project to install 20 Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants in Lyari and Kemari towns, but, the private company […]
Allottees still dream to build homes in KMC-OQCHS on May 4, 2017KARACHI: Despite allotment, lease, sub-lease and completion of boundary wall on KMC Officers Owais Qurni Cooperative Housing Society (KMC-OQCHS)’s land, the allottees are not being allowed to build their homes there by office bearers of Society. Since 1993, 1200 serving, retired and heirs of deceased officials (allottees) of KMC-OOQHS) have been striving to build their […]
Animatronics replicas of animals to amuse visitors at Jahangir Park on May 1, 2017KARACHI: First ever erection of animatronics replicas of wild animals at Jahangir Park, formerly known as Behramji Bagh will provide the visitors a splendor change. The engineers of Karachi Development Authority (KDA) have been busy in the completion for a new face of Park at a cost of Rs 200 million since six months, officials […]
Animatronics replicas of animals to amuse visitors at Jahangir Park on May 1, 2017KARACHI: First ever erection of animatronics replicas of wild animals at Jahangir Park, formerly known as Behramji Bagh will provide the visitors a splendor change. The engineers of Karachi Development Authority (KDA) have been busy in the completion for a new face of Park at a cost of Rs 200 million since six months, officials […]
Sindh govt to invite bids for Blue Lines on April 30, 2017KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to hand over Blue Lines Bus Rapid Transport System Project to another organisation, after refusal by Bahria Town Group ;Taha Farooqui, Secretary Transport Department Sindh has revealed. In this regard, an international tender will be invited in order to keep the job process transparent. Murad Ali Shah, Chief Minister […]
Rift between Sindh govt and Pakistan Railways over construction of bridge at Malir on April 29, 2017KARACHI: Sindh government’s project for building second portion of overhead bridge at Malir-15 has remained in doldrums since 2013. This is due to the rift over the land issue between Pakistan Railway and Sindh government. The Railway is claiming money from Sindh government on the pretext that portion of the ramp is being built over […]
LGD intend to spend funds on ongoing development projects in Sindh on April 28, 2017KARACHI: The Local Government Department Sindh has reiterated its stance to spend the allocated funds on ongoing development projects in Sindh to maximum level under Rs 16 billion Annual Development Schemes 2016-2017 fiscal year. It is a prescribed formula that 80 percent of development funds will be spent on ongoing schemes while 20 percent of […]
Bahria’s trash containers create mess on April 27, 2017KARACHI: The administration of District Municipal Corporation (DMC) Central is in a fix how to lift the containers size trash boxes that have been put on roadsides within DMC’s administrative precinct by Bahria Town administration, which are hindering traffics flow. “We have no appropriate arrangements and the moving machinery to lift these containers after they […]
Sindh Excise Dept collects Rs 41.64bn between July 2016 and March 2017 on April 27, 2017KARACHI: The Excise and Taxation Department has collected Rs 41,647 million worth of taxes during the July 2016 to March 2017 fiscal year, officials of the Department confirmed. The department had projected a tax collection target of Rs 52,610 million and there was a possibility that it would touch around Rs 60 billion in the […]