Hyderabad:
The Sindh government will inject more than 20 billion rupees on a range of development diets in Hyderabad during the year 2025-2026. However, some of the most necessary development projects concerning water filtration factories, wastewater treatment plants and public parks do not find any mention in the public sector development program (PSDP).
The pollution of the Industry river and its channels in Hyderabad will continue tirelessly for the coming years because the government seems to be the least embarrassed to treat municipal, commercial and industrial wastewater, released in sailors.
In addition, the city’s water needs have increased a collector due to the overvoltage of the population, but only water filtration facilities with a small capacity of around six million gallons per day are built instead of a central factory with a higher capacity.
The toxic industrial wastewater in the area of the Hyderabad site are released in the Phuleli canal, which is a source of consumption and irrigation water for Hyderabad, Tando Muhammad Khan and Badin districts.
The industrialists in the area are assured for a few years that the provincial government will build a combined effluent processing plant for them.
The budget, however, has maintained the status of CEPT for the Hyderabad site, not approved with an expense of 100 million rupees and zero allowances for this year.
In addition, there are also reflections of the programs, which have been delayed several years in the release of affected funds, therefore delaying the completion of projects and eventually increasing costs. There are other projects which, although it seems less important but which have obtained massive funds.
Two years ago, in 2023, the government approved the installation of three traffic lights in Hyderabad with expenses of RS233,486 million. A derisory sum of RS11,674 million was published during the outgoing financial year while next year 30 million more rupees will be provided, totaling 18% of the total allowance.
This shows abundantly how the authorities lose years to finish some of the city’s vital projects, which should be completed in a few months given the congestion problems of rampant traffic.
Phase III of the Grand Qasimabad drainage scheme was launched in 2017 with a revised budget of 3.1 billion rupees. This project should be completed by June 2026 with the publication of the remaining total amount of RS230 million.
Another project approved in 2017 concerns the construction of the road, the retaining wall, the drain and the prestressing bridge on the right side of the old Phuleli canal, extending from Preetabad to the Darya Khan pumping station.
A revised sum of 4.923 billion rupees must be spent on the project whose completion status will be 85% in June 2026, even after eight years. The provincial government had approved the construction of a health discharge site for Hyderabad in February 2017. On the estimated total cost of 461.9 million rupees, it will only obtain 25 million rupees in 2025-2026.
The construction of 9.66 kilometers in length Tando Jam Road on Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas Road was also approved in May 2017, with more than 2 billion rupees. With a fund allowance of 98.5 million rupees for the next financial year, 90% of the total bypass budget will be published by June 2026.
Authorities have also planned to recondition and build two of the most important routes in Hyderabad. One of them extends from Shahbaz over Thandi Sarak to Latifabad Unit 7 Railway Under passes and the other from the grid station in Qasimabad to the old national motorway.
However, however, a colossal sum of RS1.038 billion was proposed in the two -road budget whose combined length is approximately 2 km. The government will publish 519.3 million rupees for the project during the upcoming budgetary year.
The enlargement and current reconditioning of Autobahn, the longest commercial route in the city, have already taken too long to be dismayed by merchants and shuttles.
The 3.2 billion rupered project, which also includes the construction of a new road drainage system, will receive 94% of the total sanctioned funds. The program was approved in October 2022 and was revised on May 29, 2023.
In the higher education sector, the University of Government College will receive 119.7 million rupees to complete the construction of a limit wall at the total cost of 200 million rupees while for an upgrade of Varsity, 17.8 million rupees will be given.
