KARACHI - City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has established a special ward for patients affected with dengue and other harmful viruses and contagious diseases. The new 40-bedded ward will be available for admission of patients in any emergency. The new unit was inaugurated by the Provincial ...

KARACHI - The aggrieved employees of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) who have been facing late payment of salaries, blocked MA Jinnah Road on Wednesday to give vent to their frustration and demanded timely payment of their salaries. The irate employees blocked MA Jinnah Road for all ...

KARACHI (PPI) - City District Government Karachi has issued NOC to construct monument for 18 October 2008 carnage victims in a park beneath Karsaz Flyover, a press release issued from Peoples Secretariat Sindh said. District Officer Coordination issued the letter No DO/ CDGK 49{010 to Peoples Party ...

KARACHI - Former City nazim Naimatullah Khan on Tuesday demanded the government to conduct audit of the Haq Parast-led city governments funds to asses the historical corruption made over the last 4 years. He was addressing a counter press conference regarding the four years performance of MQMs city ...

KARACHI - Karachi City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that the CDGK led by Haq Parast has completed 2,496 projects in the City during last four years while 126 mega projects were still under progress. This list includes only those projects which have cost more than Rs30 million. He expressed ...

Karachi (PPI) - City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has issued directives to all officers and staff of its concerned departments to stay on duty, keeping in view more monsoon rains while continuing emergency in different departments. District Coordination Officer (DCO) Karachi Javed Hanif ...

KARACHI - The Forest Department, in collaboration with Pakistan Army, has successfully cultivated Jatropha plants used to obtain biodiesel fuel in various developing countries, sources revealed to The Nation on Monday. Jatropha is cultivated in Mexico and Brazil and its oil is used produce ...

KARACHI - City Nazim Mustafa Kamal on Friday presented the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) budget for the year 2009-10 in City Council session with an outlay of Rs52,531.25 million against the estimated expenditure of Rs52,360.89 million and showing a surplus of Rs170.36 million. A sum of ...

KARACHI - The CDGK will organise summer camps for school children from June 2. However, it has been decided to charge high registration fees from the children; which will be a financial burden on the parents, The Nation learnt on Friday. As per details, the summer camp will include various sports, ...

KARACHI - Despite the passage of three months, a total of 1,220 teachers including Primary School Teachers (PST), Junior School Teachers (JST) and Sindhi Language Teachers (SLT) of CDGK-run schools are still waiting for their promotions in the BPS grade-16 due to the lethargic attitude of the ...

KARACHI - Early childhood education including Montessori and Kinder garden has been started in two CDGK runs schools, while the same system is likely to be introduced in the remaining schools after summer vocations, sources in the education department, the sourced divulged to The Nation on ...

KARACHI - The CDGK has bought four baby elephants from Tanzania, the contractor of the project told The Nation on Friday. The four elephants, including a male and three female animals, are 2-3 years old and passing through the quarantine period in a Tanzanian city, he said, adding the babies would ...

KARACHI - The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) on Tuesday has presented the draft budget of Rs52.141 billion for financial year 2009-10. Naib City Nazim Nasreen Jalil chaired city council session. In the budget, total expenditures have been estimated at Rs52.040 billion against the revenue ...

KARACHI - On the directives of President Asif Ali Zardari, the CDGK Forest Department will plant Margosa tree (Neem) at various important places including highways and outskirts of the metropolis in the forthcoming spring season, The Nation was told here on Tuesday. Sources in the forest department ...

KARACHI - City Government's 1339 toll free Citizen Complaint Information Centre (CCIC), established at its head office, is unique in a sense that all civic problems of citizens come into the direct notice of City Nazim, DCO, MD KWSB, KBCA and the town nazims through IT system, sources told The ...

KARACHI - The poor standard of education in government schools and dilapidated condition of the buildings is not a hidden aspect in our society. In Karachi, the educational system in the state-run schools has been completely collapsed and are not producing any encouraging results. One such example ...

KARACHI - City District Government Karachi has decided to make amendments in the food bylaws to make them more effective and in accordance to present requirements. This was decided in a meeting of health department chaired by City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Monday. EDO Health Dr. A.D Sajnani, ...

KARACHI - The CDGK has faced Rs 25.302 billion shortfall due to less collection of tax and non-tax receipts during last fiscal year 2007-08, says a report prepared by the finance department of city government. The CDGK authorities including the revenue department has failed to get the target of ...

KARACHI - The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) authorities on Saturday demolished around 1,500 huts at Katchi abadis in front of Karachi University (KU), on charges of encroachment on state land, depriving more than 5,000 inhabitants of their shelters. The affectees of Katchi abadis ...

KARACHI - An elaborate command and control centre, consisting of wireless hybrid video security surveillance system, established at the CDGK head office Civic Centre, to be made functional from tomorrow (Sunday), will be very helpful in monitoring traffic flow, criminal acts and providing safe and ...

KARACHI - City District Government Karachi has established an Institute for Advancing Careers & Talents (IACT) in Khokhrapar Malir to promote educational and vocational skills among the youth of Karachi. The project costing Rs.24 million has been completed under a public private partnership ...