Murad urges Center to support Sindh to launch KCR, Economic Zone, Keti bandr projects.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that his government was keen to start a number of projects under SPEC but his top priority projects include Karachi Circular Railway, Dhabeji Special Economic Zone and Keti Banadr, and hoped that the federal government would support him to launch these projects. This he said while talking to a 22-member federal parliamentary delegation led by MNA Sher Ali Arbab called on Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah who called on him here on Monday at CM House to evolve consensus for the CPEC-related projects to be launched in Sindh. The other delegation members were Ghous Bux Maher, Noor Alam Khan, Sadaqat Ali Khan Abbasi, Senator Ahmed Khan, senator Hila-ur-rehman, Senator Chaudhry Tanveer, MNA Zile Huma, Murtaza Javed Abbasi MNA Mehnaz Akbar Aziz and others.

The chief minister was assisted by Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, PSCM Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Finance Hassan Naqvi, Secretary Investment Najam Shah and others. Chairman CPEC Parliamentary Party Ali Arbab said that socioeconomic development Projects under CPEC come to $ 1 billion. He added that he wanted an overall development of projects under CPEC in Sindh, other Initiatives under CPEC and challenges and hurdles in executing the projects under CPEC in his meeting with the chief minister. It was pointed out that MoU was signed between Ministry of Planning Development and Special Initiatives and China Development and Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) on 3rdNovember, 2018.

In response to the MoU, all provinces shared their projects in six identified areas. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that his government shared 29 projects in areas of Education, TVET, Health, Poverty Alleviation, Clean Drinking Water, and Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries. Chairman CPEC parliamentary body said that from the shared projects of all provinces, 27 projects were identified as priority projects and of these, 17 projects was identified as fast track projects. From 17 fast track projects, seven projects have share for Sindh, two of these projects were in agriculture, twoin education, one in health, and two in TVET.

The two Fast Track Agriculture projects include China-Pakistan Joint Agriculture Technology Laboratory and China-Pakistan Joint Agriculture Demonstration Stations The chief minister said that for the Sindh's projects in agriculture, Chinese experts visited Sindh on December 15th, 2019 to discuss agriculture projects and to do...