KARACHI
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in his meeting with the Chinese Consul General in Karachi Li Bijian here on Friday at CM House said that the well-reputed people from the private sector have been inducted into the company constituted for the construction of the houses collapsed during heavy rains so that transparency could be ensured.
“The funds raised or taken as loans from the lending agencies for the construction of the houses of the flood-affected people would be utilized transparently and its audit would be conducted by a well-reputed firm.”
Shah invited philanthropists, the international community, brothers, & friendly countries, and multinational companies to come over and select a locality/Mohalla or a village for the construction of the collapsed houses and undertake the work from the contractors or construction company of their choice and the provincial government would extend them all kind of support.
The CM said that the heavy rains and floods have damaged 3.8 million houses for which his government has negotiated a loan of $500 million to reconstruct the houses, but the number of the houses was so huge that more help and assistance was needed to house all the displaced people.
The Chinese consul general told the chief minister that a team of their experts was scheduled to visit the flood-affected areas of the Sukkur division to survey the collapsed houses and then select the areas to reconstruct the houses. The CM thanked the Chinese government and the people for helping the Sindh government in the rehabilitation of the affected people.
The Chinese consul general presented a $100,000 cheque to the chief minister for Karachi and RMB500,000 for CM Fund for flood-affected people. The chief minister thanked the consul general, the Chinese government, and the people for helping the flood-affected people of Sindh.
