HYDERABAD, Oct 6: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has directed the consultants and the contractors to complete work on sewerage lines being laid under Risala Road and the Qadamgah Maula Ali Road by December this year so that the two roads could be reopened for traffic as soon as possible.

During a visit to the construction site on Friday he urged to accelerate the pace of work as it had seriously affected the city’s economic activities.

The chief resident engineer of the consultants, Usmani and Company, Niaz Ali Shar, and WASA Managing Director Kafeel Ahmed were present on the occasion.

STRIKE CALLED OFF: The bus owners of Jamshoro, Kotri, Khuda-ki-Basti, Qasimabad and Husri who ply their vehicles to and through Hyderabad city have called off their strike after 12 days following successful negotiations with the district nazim.

The bus owners had observed strike following a district government ban on the buses entering the city. The district said it had to ban the buses entry because of ongoing work on laying sewers.

The negotiations between the bus owners and the nazim resulted in the new routes for plying buses which would terminate at Makki Shah, Hyderabad Gymkhana and near Civil Hospital.

BAN: The Building Control Department of HDA on Thursday banned the installation of towers on the rooftops of plazas and houses by the mobile phone companies.

A spokesman for the department said in a statement that the towers posed a grave danger to the lives and directed all the mobile phone companies to purchase space for erecting towers on the ground and also seek prior permission from the department in this regard.

The spokesman also advised the owners of houses and residents of multi-storey buildings not to allow the installation of any tower on the rooftops of their buildings.—Bureau Report

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