KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Minorities Affairs Giyan Chand Essarani Tuesday expressed displeasure over the non-completion of development schemes despite passage of 10 years and ordered enquiry into the matter.

Strict action should be initiated against the responsible officers and if needed, cases might be referred to Sindh Anticorruption Establishment, he said while presiding over a review meeting regarding ADP schemes. Secretary Minorities Affairs Hafiz Abdul Hadi Bullo, Director Minorities Affairs Sindh Abdul Shakoor Abro, Executive Engineer Ashok Kumar and Deputy Directors and Assistant Engineers of all division attended the meeting.

Essarani directed that monitoring of ongoing development schemes should be tightened, adding now the previous method of running development schemes would not work anymore. The Director Minority Affairs Sindh will be responsible at the provincial level to strictly monitor the pace of development schemes and the Deputy Directors of all regions at the divisional level.

The minister also directed to form a high level inquiry committee on the development schemes of Sadh Belo Sukkur and asked to submit committee’s recommendations to him at the earliest. He strictly directed that the ongoing development schemes should be completed by coming December in all cases and all the components of the development schemes should be completed adding that complaints have been received that allied facilities are not completed in development schemes.

The minister added that such negligence would not be tolerated under any circumstances. ‘All schemes should be completed under the plan and certificate of completion of schemes should not be issued till all the components of the scheme are completed,’ the Provincial Minister warned.

Earlier, the provincial minister was informed in a detailed briefing on development schemes that work was underway on 10 umbrella schemes and three single schemes of ADP, while 47 new schemes costing Rs 942 million were approved in the annual development program of the financial year 2021-22, for which Rs235.500 million has been allocated in the current financial year.