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City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the newly constructed Hasrat Mohani Model Park with a mini zoo in Union Council (UC) 6 of the Shah Faisal Town, on late Saturday evening.

Addressing an audience of thousands, Kamal said the process of accountability would remain functional and those who cannot work honestly better stay home.

He added that for laying water and sewerage lines in the metropolis, development projects of Rs16 billion were in progress. He also said that amount spent on these projects has started retrieving in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) in IT Tower, Karachi Elevated Expressway (KEE) and several other development projects.

Kamal congratulated the residents and town administration on completion of the model park with its mini zoo. He expressed satisfaction over the ongoing development work in the town and applauded the efforts of the Town Nazim and his team in this regard.

The city Nazim optimistically said that in a very short period of time, these town Nazims have done a remarkable job which others could not do even in last 59 years.

The Jinnah Garden, union council (UC) 1, Malir Town will soon have street-lights and within Rs50,000, said Nazim Malir Town, Ansar Ahmed Sheikh.

During the inauguration ceremony of the water pipeline project in the area, Sheikh said that every house in the vicinity will receive water at their doorstep. According to a press release issued on Thursday, the spokesperson stated that the budget for the road of the UC1 has been approved and they were waiting for the completion of the water pipeline project to start the work. The town nazim stated that the town administration was working in every UC without any discrimination and the project of sewerage pipeline at Jaffar Tiyar Society, worth Rs25 million is an example of it. Furthermore, the recent development works conducted in Malir town were never done before. He also said that Rs70 million were spent on the projects at Model Colony, UC1 and no such example was available in the past to compare it with the work conducted by the current town administration.

SHAH FAISAL TOWN: The Nazim Shah Faisal Town, Mohammad Imran has directed his staff to remove sewerage lines from storm water drains. He said this while inspecting the ongoing fumigation and anti-malarial campaign during his visit to the UCs of the town. He stated that the cleanliness drive will remain active till the drains are completely cleaned. He instructed his team to take all possible measures to facilitate the people with a clean and healthy environment and the concerned department was ordered to immediately dispose solid wastes taken out of these drains during their cleanliness campaign so that the public has no complaints.

BALDIA TOWN: The town administration of Baldia Town was using all available resources to facilitate the people of the town, said Nazim Baldia Town, Kamran Akhtar on Thursday. A press release issued by the town administration said that they were focussing on every issue related to the town and were facilitating people without any discrimination. While inspecting the C.C Flooring project at the UC 4-F and 4-G, the town nazim stated that such a project will provide a base for a fundamental infrastructure of the town.

LYARI TOWN: The Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) has warned the public to stop the selling and purchasing of shops that are part of the Karachi Financial Tower Project (KFTP).

A press release said that the KBCA has declared the advertisement and selling of the shops under the KFTP illegal, especially since they don’t have an NOC. .

In addition to the warning, partition walls of fifth and sixth floor and roof of plot No 744, street no. 15/16, E Road Bahar Colony, Lyari town were demolished by KBCA as it was illegal.

SITE TOWN: The SITE town municipal administration has launched a cleanliness campaign. According to a media release.

KARACHI: The Sindh Environment & Alternate Energy Department on Monday started free checkups of smoke-emitting vehicles in the metropolis. More than 150 vehicles were checked through smoke analyzing instruments, on a voluntarily basis, on the first day of the campaign.

Sindh Minister for Environment & Alternate Energy Dr Saghir Ahmed said that the government was not only was taking revolutionary and visible steps for the eradication of air pollution but was also providing fitness checkup facilities to people on a voluntarily basis to promote awareness about the harms of traffic smoke.

He observed that the air pollution caused by vehicle smoke causes diseases like asthma, bronchitis, heart and lung disorders and skin diseases. The vehicles discharge carbon mono-oxide with engine smoke that, which mixes with the blood and absorbs oxygen. This causes suffocation, headache, mental weakness, faintness and can even lead to death, he added.

Dr Saghir said that the patrol or diesel used in vehicles as fuel generates gas that has hundreds of thousands of carbons in it including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, Sulphur oxide, as well as particles of carbon and lead. More than 30 percent of the vehicles plying on the roads discharge extra smoke, due to old engines and the failure to overhaul them.

Therefore, the minister said, people should get their vehicle engines overhauled after the prescribed period and should also stop using adulterated fuels. He said public cooperation was a must in efforts to strop growing air pollution.

KARACHI: The metropolis received intermittent rain showers on Monday and a pleasant climate was experienced by the citizens.

The spell of rain with breezy weather was experienced due to the westerly low-pressure system, which after causing heavy spells of rain in most parts of Balochistan especially in its coastal areas has brought widespread showers in lower and upper Sindh.

The cloudy and highly overcast weather in the city especially in the early morning hours by and large prevented Karachiites from observing the partial solar eclipse, the first astronomical phenomenon of its kind occurring in 2007.

Muhammad Shahid Qureshi, in-charge of the University of Karachi’s Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics, said that through observatory of the institute, he could verify occurring of the solar phenomenon only for 20 seconds due to the heavily cloudy sky around the city.

The partial solar eclipse was supposed to occur in the city from 5:38 am to 9:32 am on Monday with its peak time to be observed at 7:32 am. The Metrological Department recorded the maximum quantity of rain of 53 millimetre at its North Karachi observatory. The Met Office’s observatories in PAF Base Masroor recorded 17 millimetre rain followed by 10.3 mm at the Gulistan-e-Jauhar observatory.

Localities of Malir, Gulishan-e-Iqbal, Gadap, areas along Super Highway and National Highway, North Karachi, Nazimabad, North Nazimabad, Liaquatabad, FB Area and adjoining areas received relatively heavy spell of rain in the daytime. The rain in most areas of the city started around 12 pm and drizzle continued till late in the noon.

Roads, arteries, and streets in many areas were seen in bad shape after the rain as non-drainage of rainwater caused mud and smalls puddles of water causing considerable hardships for pedestrians and motorcyclists.

Most parts of the city had sunny and clear weather situation in the aftermath of the drizzling spell. The minimum and maximum temperatures recorded in the city were 22.0 Centigrade and 28.0 Centigrade respectively with 66 per cent humidity in the atmosphere.

The Met has forecast partly cloudy weather in the city on Tuesday (today) with minimum temperature expected to range between 20 degrees Centigrade to 22 degrees Centigrade. An official of the Met told The News that chances of further rain in the city in the next 24 hours are minimal as the weather system has moved towards upper Sindh.