Sindh govt to bear treatment expenses for kids victims of power wire accident
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- Sep 03, 2018
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday directed health department to make necessary arrangements for the treatment of two boys who lost their arms and hands when high tension wires fell on them.
Presiding over a cabinet meeting here at the CM House, the chief minister said that the incident of Umar, 8, of Ahsanabad and Haris, 9, of Surjani Town were extremely painful.
“I want to rehabilitate them at any cost and the provincial government would bear all their treatment expenses wherever it is possible,” he said.
He directed Secretary Health Dr Usman Chachar to talk to the experts/ doctors and give them the reports of the children so that they could be rehabilitated and returned to normal life.
The chief minister said that arrangements may also be made to fix them artificial limbs. “I don’t know how it would be done but just I want it to be done at any cost,” he directed the secretary health and also asked him to keep him sending day to day reports.
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CM Murad directs to remove overhead cables hanging
in Karachi
The cabinet also took up the issue of overhead cables hanging everywhere in the city. The chief minister on the recommendation of the cabinet constituted a committee under the secretary local government to talk to the concerned quarters to remove all overhead cables of internet, telephone, TV cables and such others.
“These cables are not only defacing the beauty of the city but also creating nuisance, some time they fall on vehicles and sometimes on the road,” the chief minister said and directed to Secretary Local Government Khalid Hyder Shah to seek help from the commissioner Karachi and get those cables removed and make them underground.
The cabinet gave Khalid Shah task to talk to all the concerned cable owners and agencies and give them time to remove overhead cables.
Sindh cabinet expresses reservations on beggars roaming with kids
The cabinet also expressed serious reservation on the beggars roaming around along with their small children and begging on all the important stops, signals, places.
“This is unacceptable and we cannot allow small children to start their life as beggar,” the chief minister said and added that strict measures must be taken to control this social evil. CM Advisor Murtaza Wahab said that nobody knows whose children the beggars were roaming here there.
The cabinet sought a detailed report on the issue and decided to remove beggars from the city. The traffic police, district administration and social welfare department would jointly work to eliminate beggar mafia from the city.
The law department presented an item under which it recommended to ban on polythene and plastic bags. The CM Advisor on Law, Murtaza Wahab said that environment and climate change are one of the most serious issues being faced by the country, therefore strict enforcement of law for developing environment friendly society.
The chief minister directed law department to present this item in the next cabinet along with detailed study and consultation with all the stakeholders.
The Finance department gave a detailed presentation and requested the cabinet to approve appoint of new CEO/President of Sindh Bank Ltd.
ACS Finance Noor Alam said that the board of directors of the bank had conducted interviews for the position on January 22, 2018 and selected four candidates for the position. The cabinet approved the appointment of Mr Tariq Ahsan who was on the top in the list.
The SRB took up an item of exemption of Sindh Sales Tax on the services provided or rendered in relation to the donations made for Diamer Bhasha & Mohmand dams funds. The cabinet approved the exemption.