PPP Chairman wants towns, UCs in Karachi empowered to deliver to public: Saeed Ghani
Karachi Sindh Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani has said the Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has issued special directions to the provincial government to facilitate the towns and union councils in Karachi to empower them to serve the people of Karachi in the best possible manner.
The Local Government Minister stated this on Friday while chairing a meeting attended by chairmen of 13 towns in Karachi. The meeting was also attended by PPP Sindh General Secretary Waqar Medhi, Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab, and Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister Najmi Alam.
Ghani said that all town chairmen should remain in constant contact with their vice-chairmen, union committee chairmen and vice-chairmen, and councillors in their respective municipal jurisdictions in the city.
He said the Sindh government had ensured that the OZT share being regularly paid to different municipal agencies would financially strengthen them to pay salaries to all their staffers and disburse pensions to all their retired employees. He said that every town in Karachi had to act to resolve the complaints forwarded to it by all the elected local government representatives in its jurisdiction up to the level of councillor.
Waqar Mehdi informed the meeting that the PPP Sindh President had directed all the chairmen of municipal agencies belonging to the Peoples Party in the province to submit to him their performance reports. He said that the same reports would be used to question the performance of PPP’s town chairman in Karachi next month. He said that a compliance report in this regard would then be compiled and forwarded to the PPP Chairman.
He said that PPP Chairman had issued directions to the party’s elected representatives and organisational set-up of the Peoples Party to enhance their mutual relations so that the people of Karachi should be served in the best possible manner.
Karachi’s Mayor said he would try his best to improve ties between every town and the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation. He said that in this regard, soon meetings would be held with every town to assist them in resolving their issues. “We own all 25 towns in Karachi as we take along with us every town,” he said. He said the civic agencies including Karachi Water & Sewerage Corporation and Sindh Solid Waste Management Board would be taken aboard in this regard. “We work to achieve the sole purpose of making Karachi the city of lights again by resolving all its issues,” added the Mayor.