KARACHI: Mayor Karachi  Murtaza Wahab directed officials concerned that work should also be accelerated to bring streetlights to solar system and take whatever approval is required from him.

Chairing high-level meeting with officers of engineering department Murtaza said that non-functioning of streetlights except load shedding hours on city’s major corridors like Shahrah-e-Faisal, Rashid Minhas Road, Shahrah-e-Pakistan, Mai Kolachi Road, M.T.Khan Road and other main roads cannot be tolerated any further.

He said that engineering department must ensure that streetlights installed on all these roads are kept lit within week and concerned engineers should visit  areas personally and take immediate steps where required, but provide convenience to citizens at any cost.

Deputy Mayor  Salman Abdullah Murad, Municipal Commissioner Syed Afzal Zaidi, Director General Engineering Azhar Hussain Shah, S.E Electrical and Mechanical Abbas Ali Shah, S.E I and QC Anees Ahmed Khan, Chief Engineers of various zones and districts, XENs, Executive Engineers were present.

Mayor took strict notice of shutdown of streetlights on various main roads and streets of city during meeting and directed Director General Engineering to fix vigilance system immediately.

He said engineers and other officers should go and inspect themselves everywhere and restore street lights immediately wherever system is not working. A week later on September 4, he himself will visit  city to see that orders given have been complied with and how far it has been implemented, he said.

He said that KMC does not have to pay bill for streetlights as all payments are made by Sindh government. However, switching off streetlights on streets of Karachi is not acceptable.

He said that there has been discussion with officials of K-Electric and they will solve all  issues with K-Electric.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 29 2023

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