LARKANA, May 30: Construction of a dual carriageway between Ratodero, Larkana and Dadu, establishment of a cement factory in Qubo Saeed Khan and a power generation plant at Mazarani Gas Field near Ghabidero are salient features of the prime minister’s Larkana development package, said MNA-elect Faryal Talpur at a reception at Naudero House on Thursday.

She said keeping in view the growing demand of irrigation water, extension of Saifullah Magsi Canal would be undertaken and in view of the Ratodero Taluka Council’s recommendation property tax would be waived off for Naudero people.

She said the government was ready to go for new delimitations of union councils and Dehs in Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts. In this context a committee comprising Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot district presidents of PPP, elected representatives and officers concerned should prepare proposals for early implementation, she added.

She said a number of development schemes pertaining to road network, health, education that had been approved and almost all roads of Larkana would be rehabilitated. She said to surmount electricity problem, Mirokhan grid station would be upgraded and a new grid station in Larkana would be constructed.Issues of law and order and unemployment were receiving top priority of the government. “I promise the jobs would be provided at each door of Larkana,” she said.

Sindh Minister for Women Development Department Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto announced that a women’s park would be established in Naudero and called for establishing a women’s university in Larkana.

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