The chief minister said the SSWMA was a new body and needed capacity building so that it could work scientifically with best efficiency. The World Bank country chief said he would send solid waste management experts to Sindh government and through P&D a detailed plan would be chalked out to improve capacity of the authority so that not only its efficiency in solid waste disposal and management could be improved but it must become a self-sufficient organization.
It was agreed that SSWMA's capacity building would be made in such a way so that it could work all over Sindh in different phases. In the first phase it would start work in divisional headquarters and later in district headquarters. The chief minister said our growers were engaged in traditional crops of high deltaic and low yield. "I want to introduce major change in cropping pattern in which low deltaic crops can be grown with high yield," he said and added this would improve rural economy.
Shah said a separate cropping system should also be developed for small growers. "We have to improve their income by switching them over to orchards-cum-cash crops," he said. The World Bank country director Patchamuthu Illangovan said he would bring global agricultural experts here with him and would have their meeting with the Agriculture department and P&D experts. He added that they would prepare a plan to implement in phases.
CM Shah said the Sindh govt was working in mother child health and nutrition programmes in different districts, including Thar. This programme has produced some good results.A World Bank team would come shortly and hold meeting with Sindh government concerned officers to shape up reforms in agriculture and solid waste management sectors.