Reconstruction of damaged infrastructure of all sectors to reduce poverty ratio: Bilawal

Our Correspondent
KARACHI: Chairman People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that with the reconstruction of damaged infrastructure, including houses, roads, and the Irrigation system employment opportunities would generate to reduce poverty ratio which has increased after heavy downpours and floods in the province.
“I want the provincial government to speed up the construction works that would serve as a source of employment also.”
This he said while pressing over a high-level meeting here at CM House. The meeting was attended by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, provincial ministers, advisors, Chief Secretary Sohail Rajput, Chairman P&D Hassan Naqvi, PSCM Fayaz Jatoi, provincial secretaries, and others.
Chief Minister briefing the chairman PPP said that Sindh was in dire need of $7.86 billion to reconstruct/overhaul the damaged infrastructure of the different sectors. He added that the damage assessment and preliminary estimates showed that 55% of the total housing sector has been damaged worth Rs570.167 billion.
Similarly, 10 percent of the education sector worth Rs97.848 billion, 9 percent of each Irrigation and road network worth Rs94.781 billion and Rs94.344 billion respectively, 5 percent of the local government’s water & sanitation of Rs53.54 billion, one percent of water & sanitation of Public Health engineering Rs9.872 billion, two percent of Health infrastructure worth Rs21.934 billion, four percent of Livestock, poultry & fisheries worth Rs46.053 billion, two percent of the road network of the local government of Rs16.2 percent, and three percent others worth Rs46.053 billion.