Staff Reporter The Government of Sindh and PANI (People and Nature Initiative), an NGO, signed an agreement earlier in February to start the development work of the Nehr-e-Khayam Park, area adjacent to the Karachi Grammar School, Clifton which has been an environmental threat and a menace for residents living in the area for over 25 years. To implement the agreement, a tree plantation drive was initiated on Sunday with the students of the Karachi Grammar School and nearby residents and communities on Sunday. This is indeed an exemplary partnership between the public and private sector with good intent for the welfare of the people of Karachi & later to be a model for other provinces to replicate. The project is to clean the sewage water flowing into the canal through the indigenous sustainable ‘reed bed’ technology and plant hundreds of trees, bushes and create jogging tracks, viewing decks accessible to the public as a recreational facility. The youth of Karachi, students from KGS helped kick off the excellent initiative by planting trees under the leadership of the Chief Minister. , Sindh encouraging other stakeholders who are endorsing this activity with their time and expertise. The plantation drive began with the Minister Local Government, Syed Nasir Shah, followed by Advisor, to CM, Barrister Murtaza Wahab, & Mayor Waseem Akhter who graced the occasion with their presence and assured their full support to PANI for the successful realisation of reclaiming public space with an environmentally clean & friendly park for the people of Karachi.
