Municipal emergency enforced in Karachi by Dr. Farooq Sattar

KARACHI: A 'municipal emergency' enforced in Karachi initially on an experimental basis for a period of three months became formally functional from Tuesday. The emergency was  declared by Senior Sindh Minister Dr Farooq Sattar at a press conference. "We will achieve the targets set  before us by the end of April," Dr Farooq Sattar hoped while talking to the newsmen on Tuesday.  Under the municipal emergency the man and mechanical power of KMC, five DMCs and KWSB had been pooled for  deployment for the purpose of construction and repair of roads, improvement of sewerage system and  removal of garbage dumps. "Some 70,000 open manholes will be covered and some 50 sewerage lines  will be replaced during the next 3 months," he said. Dr Farooq Sattar said that 15 major delapidated  roads were being taken in hand for construction under a 'long lasting' road programme costing some Rs 300  million.