Staff Reporter
Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Law, Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development Barrister Murtaza Wahab has said that Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has asked all the provincial ministers to continue to hold open public meetings in all the districts of the province. According to the provincial adviser, the cabinet had decided that from now onwards, these open public meetings would be held in two parts. In the first part, half of the vicinities of a district would be covered, while the remaining areas would be covered in the next part.
Two ministers would be sent to each district to listen and resolve the problems of the people, he said. Barrister Murtaza Wahab said that Sindh Chief Minister had also directed all the ministers to submit their report of the recent open public meetings they held in their assigned district. The provincial adviser said that the Chief Minister Sindh had also directed the Sindh Chief Secretary to direct all concerned officers to listen to the problems of the people in their respective district and take steps to resolve them. He said this while briefing the media persons after the cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The cabinet meeting was presided over by Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah.
All the provincial ministers, chief secretary and all concerned officers attended the meeting. Earlier, all the provincial ministers informed the cabinet about the grievances of the people they heard at the recent open public meetings and about the steps they were taking to resolve them. Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister for Works and Services, Universities Board Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, who held an open public meeting in Hyderabad told the cabinet that, Hyderabad’s biggest problem was of sanitation and of cleanliness. Of the total 3500 sanitary workers, only 50 per cent were working, he said. Nisar Khuhro said that the government was giving a lot of funds, but they were not being utilized properly. Provincial adviser told cabinet that encroachment and law and order were also among the major problems in Hyderabad. He said that encroachments nearby the installations of irrigation system in Hyderabad were being removed.
Nisar Khuhro told the cabinet members that there were also complains of non-considering the disabled persons for government jobs. Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmad Sheikh told cabinet members that people had serious reservations over the operation against the encroachments in Sukkur, provincial minister for information Murtaza Wahab said.
People say that our homes have been bulldozed, which is extremely painful,” he said. Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh told the cabinet that he explained to the people that the anti-encroachment driver was being carried out on court orders, but he added that people were demanding about their resettlement. He said that Sukkur’s major problems included the regularization of teachers, law and order and the problems related to the irrigation.
