1.Education :
OPENING educational institutions during the coronavirus epidemic would not have been easy. Over time, the challenge of school authorities and teachers has become more severe as some schools and colleges have reported active cases of Covid-19 or found violating SOPs.
Some schools were closed in Karachi this week after a surprise visit by the Sindh Minister of Education revealed that primary school classes are continuing even though only 9 to 12 students are allowed to return to school. In fact, due to a violation of the SOP, the minister on Friday announced a week-long delay in the resumption of classes 6 to 8 in the province. In Peshawar, the health department recommended that other schools and classrooms be marked in the city and other KP areas following the discovery of Covid-19 cases between students and staff. Several private schools were also closed due to breaches of SOPs. In Islamabad, too, some students and staff were tested and found.
With studies showing low risk for children, it was important for schools to reopen after a long disruption. Students have suffered greatly at the time of the closure and the government's decision to reopen educational institutions as the national average for reduced cases has been a step in the right direction.
2. Eye in the sky:
Tracking a mobile app can save you a lot of time tracking all the latest contacts of an infected person, without requiring a detailed consultation process with qualified staff. It can also erase human error, as patients may find it difficult to remember everyone they have been in contact with, for more than 15 minutes, within a radius.
As a result, cell-based tracking applications have emerged in almost every country to help track the disease. And Pakistan is not like that. The Covid-19 Gov PK application from the Department of IT and Telecom (MoITT) and the National Information Technology Board (NITB) is intended to “keep citizens updated on official and up-to-date information on complete Coronavirus cases in the country.The application was very downloaded, and Raymond William, the project coordinator at NITB, notes that when it was first launched, Within two months of its launch, there were half a million downloads. And during peak times, the number of downloads stands at about a million.
3. Karachi Floods:
Roads were turned into rivers, cars and homes were flooded, landslides occurred in many areas, damaging vehicles and property, and more than 100 people drowned or were electrocuted. The people of Karachi are well aware that the root causes of their city's problems are political and institutional as well as their solutions. However, the province and Islamabad, which oppose the Karachi state, still have to accept and put this. It is widely believed that the reason for the floods is due to the intervention of katchi residents in the city's water system However, the situation is much more complicated, and it has been tense for a long time. This document seeks to explain these difficulties and the steps taken in the past to address them and what, in terms of technology, needs to be done now in the most changing environment.
4: PLAY HISTORY:
As most Karachi people know, Hurricane Karachi drains two rivers a year, the Lyari and the Malir. Both rise from the hills of the Kirthar distance and run parallel to each other for a distance of between 14-20 kilometers in the middle. Forty-three pipelines (or nullahs), according to the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP), and 64 according to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB), supply water to their main water points and smaller pipelines of 600 add to these 64 nullahs. In addition, houses were built over thousands of small nullahs. Before independence, the population of Karachi was only 450,000. The city had a sewage system with underground clay pipes and was treated with organic treatment at Gutter Baghicha located in the Trans-Lyari area of the city between the Haroonabad canal and the Orangi nullah. Managed Effluent was used to grow vegetables, flowers for religious ceremonies and fruit trees. Gutter Baghicha, covering an area of just over 1,000 hectares , was reduced to 480 hectares due to illegal but legally permitted land.
With the separation and arrival of an estimated 800,000 refugees from India and other Pakistani countries between 1947 and 1951, the city was forced to expand and the development of the legal and informal sector took place far from Gutter Baghicha. The Greater Karachi Resettlement Plan of 1958 built two satellite towns, Landhi-Korangi and New Karachi, about 12 miles [20 km] from the city at the time. Sewage treatment plants were set up for these living quarters and prepared sewage would be disposed of; in the case of Landhi-Korangi, to Korangi Creek and North Karachi, to Khawaja Ajmer Nagri nullah. However, these plants have never been developed so untreated feces are still dumped in these areas.Due to the lack of a continuous social housing policy, slums were built near the nullahs, and this drains their sewage as well. After the development of the legal profession in the mid-60s, in the absence of others, it also used nullah to discard.
So one can safely say that, sending the sewage system in the mid-60s was officially planned to enter the nullahs and, as a result, the mud from the wild began to block the nullahs and their sources. In 1978-79, torrential rains in Karachi and most of the houses along the nullahs were washed away. After that, the slum dwellers began to illegally buy solid waste from municipal officials to collect on It would not be a place here to say that the stormwater drainage system created by the Defense Housing Authority (DHA) also carries sewage towards the Clifton Sea and, as it progresses, pollutes the sea. Over time, the solid waste generated by the city increased from 6,500 tons to 14,000-15,000 tons between 2001 and 2020 and, in the absence of proper management and control, became difficult to manage.
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