District Hyderabad Blog.

LAHORE AND CHICAGO DECLARED SISTER CITIES BUT OUR BELOVED HYDERABAD SINDH STANDS ALONE:
 
This is for the kind information for all the well wishers of Hyderabad Sindh that we need to rise up and do some image building exercises to raise the profile and image of our beloved city Hyderabad on International level and make it a World Class City by signing Sister city agreements with matching cities of the world of our size, caliber and Historic and Cultural status.
Lahore has signed 10 such agreements and now Chicago, Usa and Lahore are declared sister cities. We always underestimate our city and being lived in long and dark depression we have become scared to take lead. We should be Proud of our city as we are one of the oldest city of South Asia and a very unique city in the world. Hyderabad Government must initiate these efforts to declare Hyderabad Sindh a sister city with other International cities by signing agreements with respective city governments. According to my Research and Analysis Hyderabad Sindh can easily be declared Sister City with Following cities based on matching criteria’s.
1.Isfahan, Iran
2.Chengdu,China
3.Berlin,Germany
4.Bourdeax,France
5.Quebec City, Canada
6.Hiroshima,Japan (They survived Atomic Bomb & We survived the worst kind of bloody civil war)
7.Sanna,Yemen.
 
 

I am sure the concerned authorities would pay immediate attention to this very important factor for the fast development of our city.

This is for the concerned authorities of Hyderabad Government that they can take real advantage of Information Technology and turn our city Hyderabad Sindh the INFO TECH CAPITAL OF PAKISTAN. We can easily learn from the glamorous and practical examples of 3 Indian cities Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai – How Information Technology changed their destinies and transformed these sleepy towns into Modern metropolises. All we need is to plan, invest and attract foreign and national mega IT companies to build their houses here in our Hyderabad Sindh and we provide them all the superb facilities and infrastructure and in no time Hyderabad Sindh will boom. The target must be to make our city Info Capital of Pakistan.

It is about time to make our Hyderabad Sindh shine on the world map. Our city has a great potential to be the IT nerve center of Pakistan. Let us work together to build our livable and loveable great Hyderabad Sindh.

This is for the kind information of Hyderabad Government that every big city of Pakistan  is taking lead but our Hyderabad Sindh is stuck in old age style of working pattern. We  cannot even complete to build modern rodas and streets in our city. God knows when that would finish and every time one company or the other breaks the water pipelines and digging up our newly built roads and no stern action is being taken against those who are responsible for this ignorant and careless attitude to destroy our city. While on the other hand Lahore just announced to build their Mass transit system and they chose to build Subways ( Underground Trains), Islamabad has announced to start a study for mass transit in that city and building more underpasses or flyovers plus widening of roads,, Rawalpindi is working for their own mega projects, Faisalabad has daily NINE (9) fast trains leaving to various parts of Pakistan, A bustling Airport, and now again taking the lead Faisalabad will be building 4 ten storeys shopping malls and Car Parking plazas based on most modern lines as they are built in Canada, and Europe.

In these 10 story tall structures 4 levels will be for Car Parking and 6 levels will consist of Modern Shopping mall. Sialkot is working very fast to build an International Airport for that city.

Then we look back to our Beautiful city Hyderabad Sindh with great potentials all we see is dug up streets, broken roads, and massive traffic jams and people protesting and burning tyres against daily Traffic Jams, Water shortages and Load shedding of electricity. No fast trains or Rail Cars connect Hyderabad DIRECTLY to other big cities. All we get a merely 8 to 10 minutes stop of these already packed trains and people of Hyderabad become just mere onlookers instead of getting on them. Same way after such a hard struggle of reopening of our Airport No flights are taking off or landing. No news of building mass transit system (Light Rail/Street Car) for our city nor any news of building high rise malls or Parking plazas, Nor we see big green parks, modern computerized traffic signals, Neither we see city criss crossed by flyovers or underpasses. Building of 5star Hotel is also nowhere in sight, No planning to build a great conference and convention centre of international class for world class conferences and moots, nor we have any modern mega Cineplex and Imax theatre, nor we have any world class Auditorium to hold exhibitions or artistic plays…. List goes on…….

Citizens of Hyderabad Sindh have a right to see this city also develop on modern lines but WHEN would that happen?????? No one knows !!!!!!!!!!! One day this Dream has to become true. Only Hyderabad Government with the help and support of citizens can build our city on modern lines only if we have a vision and faith and courage to act and work together as a team.

This is for the kind information of Hyderabad Government that with close cooperation and guidance of Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce Hyderabad Government should Invite Chinese Ambassador in Pakistan and Chinese Investors from China in Hyderabad Sindh to invest and open new industries and businesses in our city. For this great project Hyderabad Government should establish SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL ZONE only for CHINESE INVESTORS considering very close Pak-China Relationship and Chinese Billions of Dollars investment in Pakistan. Governments of Lahore and Faisalabad have already started work on establishing such kind of zones only for Chinese Investors only. They are greatly benefiting from this progressive move and future oriented thinking.
Hyderabad Government should also consider to declare Hyderabad Sindh a sister city with similar qualities in different countries. For a start Hyderabad Sindh can be declared a sister city with Chinese city of CHUNGDU, A fastly developing city of China. In the same way we can do in other counties of Asia, Europe and North America. I strongly hope that these above mentioned ideas will be considered seriously to uplift our city and to boom the speed of development of Hyderabad Sindh.

This is for the concerned authorities in Hyderabad Government that there is an IMMEDIATE URGENT NEED OF CONSTRUCTION OF PARKING PLAZAS in Hyderabad Sindh. On Priority basis these plazas must be constructed and they should be multilevel and completely illuminated with lights lifts and modern security features and metal scanners considering the security and state of sensitivity in our society nowadays.
 
These Parking Plazas should be constructed in City first and then in Qasimabad and Latifabad areas.
 

In City Parking Plazas should be constructed in following areas where there is no more place for parking.
 
 1.Tilak Chari Near St marry and Al-Raheem Shopping center.
 2.Market/Sray Ghat/Khai Road
 3.Gari Khata
 4.Saddar Near Hotel Faran/Chandni Shopping district
 5.Cloth Market/Faqir ka Pir area
 6.Hotel City Gate
 7.Thandi Sarak near Shahbaz Building/KFC/State Life Building
 
 

Citizens of Hyderabad Sindh will be highly delighted if Hyderabad Government makes announcement in this regard to ease the parking problems of our city.

This is for immediate attention for the higher ups of Hyderabad Government. LAHORE City gets 3 Billion Dollar Underground Transit plan. Work will start soon after Eid and Mass Transit project will be completed in 3 and a half years. Great news for the people of Lahore and again Lahore beats to every one. But what about our very own HYDERABAD SINDH and where do we stand???

People of Hyderabad Sindh has been asking for years for a rapid mass transit system in Hyderabad but no one seems to take any interest in this most important and urgent matter. Every city has their own needs. I have requested so many times that our Hyderabad Sindh also needs Rapid mass transit system but for us Light Rail (STREET CARS) system will perfectly work. Easy to install tracks without deep digging, Less construction required and cost effective and environment friendly. Plus our city sits on Earthquake fault line so underground system is out of question and we are a  historic city with narrow streets and tight curves. Light Rail Street Car is perfect for us. Bombardier Canada and Siemens Germany are the best builders of Light rail and street Cars in the world. Hyderabad Government authorities must contact them as soon as poosible. I don’t understand what are we waiting for. We are already in deep traffic crisis and Hours Long deadly traffic jams are already killing people of Hyderabad and badly disturbing the everyday life of citizens, commercial activity and badly affecting the climate of our city with polluting smokes and fumes of traffic stuck in traffic jams. Many innocent people have died who were in the ambulances stuck in traffic jams.
It is the most urgent need of the day so please ACT NOW.

This is for the concerned authorities in Hyderabad Government that Citizens of Hyderabad Sindh are getting sick and tired of daily worsening traffic jams in various parts of City, Qasimabad and Latifabad. I have suggested Mass Rapid transit is the only solution for our city and until we get Light Rail Transit for our city here are the workable and realistic ways to eliminate worst traffic jams. Holy month of Ramzan and Eid is coming soon and it will become a nightmare if we don’t take any actions now.

Following are the ideas:

1. Please install computerized Traffic Signals on all highways, roads and streets of city, Qasimabad and Latifabad immediately. Right now our streets are like signal free corridors and every one is free to drive the way they want and create a mess for every one.

2. Please appoint extra Traffic police staff to implement those signals and fine those who break the signals.

3.Recruit special volunteers to keep the traffic flow smooth and award them with different rewards as free tickets to movies or passes to cultural events or coupons for free shopping.

4. Please paint all the roads, highways and streets of city, Qasimabad and Latifabad with markings and traffic lines so that people can follow some rules.

5. Please make all the streets and roads of city, Qasimabad and Latifabad one way. There has to be CONCRETE DIVIDERS so people can drive in their specific lanes.

I am really glad to know that Hyderabad Government has realised the urgent need to build Flyovers in Hyderabad Sindh. I highly appreciate the announcement that 2 more flyovers will be built. One in Qasimabad near Wadhuwah and the other on railway crossing on Hyd/Mirpurkhas road. Which is great news as both these places faces worst traffic jams in city. But i will suggest that there is immediate need of building 4 more flyovers or underpasses that will help in easing traffic jams and improve overall traffic flow in Hyderabad.

(A) Tilak Charry Near St Marry/Nazreth College

(B) Kohinoor Chock Near Main Entrance to Resham Gali.

(C) Hotel City Gate

(D) Isra University Near Halla Naka
 
I would also suggest that Naya Pul which was built many many years ago must be rebuilt and redesigned as it is too narrow to 10 times multiplied high volume traffic of Hyderabad Sindh. There is always a mess to cross this bridge.