HYDERABAD:The Vice Chancellor of Sindh Agriculture University TandoJam Dr. Fateh Marri has said emphasized the need of comprehensive study regarding the sustainability of projects with future concerns prior to their implementation for the development of the institution.
The Vice Chancellor emphasized this on Saturday while addressing the concluding ceremony of the three-days capacity-building training workshop on the preparation of the resettlement action plan.
The training workshop was organized by Sindh Agriculture University (SAU), Tando Jam in collaboration with Project Coordination and Monitoring Unit, Sindh Planning and Development department under “Institutional Strengthening of Project Coordination and Monitoring Unit (PCMU)” for Water-related policies and practices, focusing Sindh Water and Agriculture Transformation (SWAT) Project.
During the workshop, the management heads and experts from various departments imparted training about water related policies and practices for the Sindh Water and Agriculture Transformation Project.
Dr. Fateh Marri guided the participants that while initiating any project, the idea must be comprehensive with focus on certain positive results of the said plan so that the society has to bring changes positively. Whatever Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) have been set, it should be mandatory to follow, he said and added that the infrastructure destroyed due to flood in Sindh should be rehabilitated keeping in mind the probability of disasters.
The World Bank’s Senior Social Development Specialist of the World Bank Imran-ul-Haq while delivering his online speech informed that the “World Bank was considering all projects especially the plans of water-related issues in Pakistan” particularly in Sindh and authorities are keen to rehabilitate agriculture and re-invigorate infrastructure. In this regard, the World Bank was fulfilling its responsibility in collaboration with all provincial institutions,” he informed.
The General Manager of SIDA Ghulam Mustafa Ujjan said that there were many issues related to water in Sindh and SIDA was working together with the institutions concerned. This training would also improve the quality of work at the institutional level, he hoped.
The resource persons of the training workshop Nasir Panhwar and Attaullah Langah said that the environmental aspects of all projects should also be taken into mind while improving the use of water and infrastructure maintenance. The importance of the environment should be highlighted among the local people, they said.
The training organizer Dr Jam Ghulam Murtaza Sahito said that the workshop had covered most aspects of the resettlement and rehabilitation action plans, definition of roles and responsibilities, legal framework, grievance procedures, budget planning, implementation, action and management.
Among others, Dr Mohammad Ismail Kumbhar, Director of University Advancement and Financial Assistance, Dr Islamuddin Rajput, Director Agriculture Extension and Afshan Usman, representative of Planning and Development also expressed their views about the training workshop.
The concluding ceremony was also attended by Shakeel Leghari, Adnan Ali, Sarfraz Ahmed Bhutto, Dr. Zahid Oad, Ayaz Ali Jalalani, Tariq Dahraj and Aftab Memon.