Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has passed orders directing the local government department on Friday to jot down the latest drainage cleaning-plan for clearance of 555 water-drains of the province.

According to the sources, including 41 KMC and 514 of DMCs, he said to remodel the drainage systems of the localities as was, lately done in Mehmoodabad and other drains.

“The cleanliness model of Mehmoodabad and Gujar nullah was a complete package under which not only encroachments along the nullahs were removed but the affected people have been compensated and roads are being constructed along the embankments of the drains,” he added.

CM said this model needed to be replicated for undertaking cleanliness of all the KMC and DMCs nullahs so that the issue of urban flooding could be resolved once and for all.

He presided over a meeting of Provincial Coordination and Implementation Committee (PCIC) here at CM House.

The meeting was told that the anti-encroachment drive along the Mehmoodabad Nullah was started on January 4 and both sides of the nullah, 7.5 km each, have been cleared. Out of 56 compensation cheques, 49 have been distributed to the affectees.

In the media-briefing, Commissioner Karachi Naveed Shaikh, said that apart from major KMC drains, the DMCs have 514 other drains in the city, of them cleanliness work of 298 drains will be started soon. 

He added that the cleanliness work would cost approximately Rs 430 million.