Sindh Chief Secretary Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah has advised the administrative secretaries, commissioners and deputy commissioners to ensure the timely completion of the development projects; qualitatively and transparently.

He was addressing a review meeting of the projects at Sindh Secretariat on Monday, which reviewed the progress of the development projects of all districts in Hyderabad Division.

Shah also asked all deputy commissioners to visit those schools and colleges where development work for furnishing the water supply sewage, electric facilities and maintenance and repair had been carried out just before the general election, and submit the inspection report through their divisional commissioners about the status.

The chief secretary urged the officers to let him know if they had any problem regarding their assignments, so that immediate redressal can be made to facilitate them. He also advised the Sindh’s finance department to release allocated funds for the development projects aimed at timely completion to benefit the masses.

Earlier, Sindh Planning & Development Board (P&D) Chairman Muhammad Waseem made a presentation on district-wise status of Hyderabad Division’s Development Schemes, belonging to the departments of education, local government, health, forest and wild life, livestock and fisheries, culture and tourism, irrigation, works and services and public health engineering, cumulatively 1000 projects, consisting as 258 of Thatta, 248 of Dadu, 145 of Sujawal, 131 of Tando Alahyar, 116 of Badin and 102 of Tando Muhammad Khan. The meeting was informed that all over 65 to 70 percent work is near completion, and the rest would be completed by June 2019.