Safe city project
Editorial
April 07, 2021
Delay marks most public projects in Sindh. It appears to be in keeping with the saying: never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. The Safe City Project for Karachi remains stalled even after the passage of six years. The scheme, launched in 2015, is aimed at preventing crime, better maintenance of law and order and also at enhancing tax collection. Besides telling on these aspects of civic life, the inordinate delay has also resulted in a runaway increase in the scheme’s estimated cost from Rs10 billion to Rs30 billion.
Six years on, Karachi yet to become a safe city
As Safe City project continues to face delays, Wahab says project near completion
KARACHI:
The Safe City project, under which Karachi is to see the installation of 10,000 CCTV cameras, will reach completion soon, said Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab, after the scheme had been delayed for around six years.
During this period, the initial estimated cost of the project has ballooned from Rs10 billion to Rs30b and the committee set up to finalise the project has held multiple meetings.
The Safe City project for Karachi was launched in 2015. Besides the installation of 10,000 CCTV cameras across the metropolis, the project was conceived to include the replacement of traditional vehicle number plates by camera-readable radio frequency identification (RFID) number plates to facilitate data collection, among other purposes. These number plates, with security features, were also to be used for tax collection.
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The attack on a police team in G-13 on Sunday night in which a head constable was martyred seems to be targeted, police said on Monday. AP/File
ISLAMABAD: The attack on a police team in G-13 on Sunday night in which a head constable was martyred seems to be targeted, police said on Monday.
Senior police officers told
Dawn on condition of anonymity that it was too early to ascertain whether the attackers were terrorists.
However, circumstantial evidence suggested it was a targeted attack, the officers said.
“According to a report, a terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which is being verified,” added a police officer.