Rs 1.61b schemes launched to rehabilitate Karachi Fish Harbor CM Murad.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah Saturday said that his government has launched Rs 1.61 billion schemes to rehabilitate Karachi Fish harbor apart from providing boats and nets to poor fishermen for Rs 100 million. This he said while presiding over a meeting to review on-going development schemes in district West here at CM's House. The participants of the meeting were told that provision of fishing boats, engines and nets to poor fishermen at Rs100 million while rehabilitation of Karachi Fish harbor at Rs1.61 billion would be carried out by the Sindh government. Speaking at the meeting, the CM Sindh said that this would help fishermen to work in an improved atmosphere at the harbor and poor fishermen would have their own boats and nets. Rehabilitation of Hub Canal at Rs 392.6 million to provide 50 million gallons per day (MGD) water to the people of District West will also be executed said the chief minister and added at present this water goes in seepage as the canal had wide cracks. The meeting was attended by Sindh ministers, Nisar Khuhro, Shabir Bijarani, Saeed Ghani, Syed Nasir Shah, Murtaza Wahab, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, Chairman P and D M. Waseem, special assistants to CM, Waqar Mehdi, Rashid Rabbani, MNA Qadir patel and MPAs from the area. The participants of the meeting...