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We see Sindh in future, a province with fully developed civil society, a society which is culturally sophisticated, intellectually matured, tolerant in behavior, enlightened and progressive in out look, a society with improved social indicators, full literacy, highly qualified human resource, full employment ,low poverty and having a reasonable social security system to cater for the needs of deprived section of population.
Dr. Ishrat Ul Ebad Khan
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OFFICES:
The
Main building consists offices of Governor, Advisers, Principal Secretary, Military
Secretary, ADC, Comptroller and Private Secretary. Other offices and Dispensary
are also located in the Governor House premises in separate office blocks.
STAFF
COLONY:
Most of the employees live along the periphery of Staff
Colony of Governor's House. Thirty-one new flats have expanded accommodation
facilities in the Colony. In the Industrial Home inside the Colony, wives and
daughters of the residents learn needle and sewing work. In Sanitors Colony,
which has, some thirty quarters in all the third generation of sweepers are
living now.
The Rangers and Security guards accommodation is
just beside Gate Number One of Governor's House facing the mosque whose
foundation stone was laid by Lt. Gen. Jahandad Khan, Governor of Sindh on 16
December 1984. Just beside the mosque is a garden and a large fountain around
which "Bara Khana" or the annual grand dinner of the Rangers / and Security
staff is held.
The
three-room dispensary which has been renovated and its walls plastered over
is, perhaps, the only surviving building of old Government House and as such
it is more than 140 years old.
ROSE
GARDEN: For the Landscape and gardens, services of David Elsworth
were obtained as consultant and a new orchard laid out along the West Side and
row of gold mohars (emblem tree of Karachi) was planted along the entrance of
Governor House. The orchard contains a botanical garden in which two varieties
each of well known plants and flowers of Sindh have been planted through the
courtesy of Vice Chancellor, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam. A rose
garden has also been planted containing 36 kinds of roses, which provides fresh
flowers at no cost to the Governor House. A walkway has been constructed for
security purposes to protect the house from mushroom growth of high rise
buildings.
CHAHAR
BAGH:
In
keeping with the traditional concept of Islamic Gardens of Paradise, Chahar
Bagh has been laid out replicating with four squares garden at the entrance
of Jahangir's tomb. The Chabutra, the site of swearing in ceremony of Quaid-e-Azam
as Governor General of Pakistan, has been paved with a geometrical design in
stone.
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