Sindh Minister for Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah announced that the Malir Development Authority (MDA) would develop a new low-cost housing society. Shah said that public housing schemes are necessary for the poor, so the MDA would introduce a low-cost housing scheme like other housing authorities, he said during a meeting of the governing body of the MDA that he chaired at his office.He said the MDA should be a facility for the people. He explained that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s vision is to provide all possible relief and facilities to the people of Sindh.He also said that all the local bodies are being made relief institutions for the people. He directed the MDA officials to follow the new rules of the Board of Revenue (BoR), and take steps to increase the salaries of the MDA’s daily-wage employees on the pattern of the provincial government.The LG minister said that like other authorities, the MDA is considering buying relevant machinery and equipment for the removal of encroachments because renting machinery for the removal of encroachments wastes both time and money.
