Staff Reporter Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has decided to declare a model village in each and every district in the next financial year for which he has sought recommendations from the elected representatives. “The model village should have not more than 1000 population and will be given the facilities of school, hospital, water supply, sanitation, roads, street lights, community center and transport facility,” CM Murad said while presiding over review meeting for on-going 401 development schemes launched under provincial ADP in five districts for Rs28.97 billion on Tuesday. Shah told the elected representatives of five districts, Badin, Thatta, Sujawal, Mirpurkhas and Tharparkar in separate meetings with them. The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, Sr. Advisor Works Nisar Khuhro, Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho, Minister PHE Shabir Bijarani, Minister Education Saeed Ghani, Minister Agriculture Ismail Rahoo, Minister Irrigation Sohail Anwar Siyal, Chairman P&D M. Waseem, Secretary Finance Hassan Naqvi and all the concerned secretaries, MPAs, MNAs and senators of the area/district, divisional commissioner, DIGs and concerned deputy commissioners and SSPs. Shah said that in the next financial year his government has decided to declare one village in every district as model village. The village would be provided best education, health and water supply schemes and even the streets of the village would be made with bricks with street lights, solar energy and approaching roads. “I want you to sit together and identify such villages as per criteria and submit him their recommendations,” he told the elected representatives of different districts.
