KARACHI: Karachi’s National Institute of Child Health will gain a new 13-storey wing after the Sindh cabinet signed off on the $17 million Bilquis & Abdul Sattar Edhi Medical Tower, a joint venture with the Abdul Sattar Edhi Foundation that will add 445 beds to the facility.
Under the arrangement, the Edhi Foundation is putting in $10 million, and the provincial government will match it with a $7 million grant, split evenly between FY27 and FY28. Faisal Edhi will head a supervisory committee to track construction progress and ensure public funds are accounted for.
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presided over the session, where ministers and senior officials worked through 23 agenda items touching agriculture, land records, healthcare, and provincial governance.
Wheat growers came away with one of the day’s bigger wins: a subsidy package worth close to Rs16 billion for those farming up to 25 acres. Every eligible grower qualifies for a flat DAP fertiliser subsidy, and anyone selling to the Food Department will now earn Rs2,000 per maund, double the previous rate.
The scheme is expected to reach roughly 550,000 farmers, building on a season in which more than 56,000 growers delivered over two million maunds from upward of 413,000 acres.
Disbursements will flow through Sindh Bank directly into Benazir Hari Card accounts once registrations are refreshed on an upgraded digital system. A separate call on the FY27 wheat support price has been put off pending further talks.
Elsewhere, the cabinet cleared a pilot for blockchain-backed land title transfers in three dehs, built with Sukkur IBA University and linked to FBR and NADRA databases, alongside a new provincial sports policy and a tax waiver worth over Rs555 million for a Karachi urology institute’s imported medical equipment.
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