The Sindh government will pay about Rs 1327.081 million to Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) and Hyderabad Electric Supply Corporation (Hesco) to ensure provision of electricity to villages in these two districts, it is learnt.
Sindh agriculture and irrigation departments on Tuesday agreed to adopt Chinese standards on the appropriate usage and conservation of water to increase the province's agricultural produces, like wheat, cotton, sugarcane etc. This was decided in a meeting presided over by Chief Minister Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah at Chief Minister House.
Sindh government and Engro Power Generation Limited on Tuesday signed an agreement for mining and generating 600-1000 megawatts power from Thar Coal fields on public-private-partnership basis. The agreement was signed by Aijaz Ali Khan, Secretary Mines and Mineral Development on behalf of Sindh Government and Asad Umer, CEO Engro Ltd and Khalid Mansoor, CEO Engro Power Generation.
Pakistan has received an application from Saudi government for buying around 500,000 acres of farmland on lease to produce variety of crops and fruits for the Middle East consumers.
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Wednesday that the present elected government was fully committed towards following the programme of the Pakistan People
Sindh Minister for Health Dr Saghir Ahmed has said that Rs 1.11 billion would be spent on the Health Preventive Programme this year throughout the province. He said this while presiding over a meeting in his office on Tuesday.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is launching solid waste project in six talukas under the North Sindh Urban Services Corporation (NSUSC) with an estimated cost of Rs18 billion.
The identified areas include Larkana, Shikarpur, Old Sukkur, Sukkur City, Rohri and Khairpur, said Larkana Ta luka Nazim Qurban Ali Abbasi on Tuesday.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said on Tuesday the government had approved a Rs20 billion package for the improvement and development of Karachi. The package includes Rs7 billion contributed by the federal government, he added.
The chief minister stated this during a meeting with City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal at the Chief Minister
Chinese government has agreed to send its agricultural experts to Pakistan for the control of Cotton leaf curl virus that has extensively hit cotton crop in Punjab and Sindh.
Three experts from China have been invited to visit Pakistan to support the ongoing research against the virus, the chairman Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (Parc) Dr Zafar Altaf said while addressing a meeting of
