On legal grounds: Arshad Vohra to fight for KMC’s powers

KARACHI: Powers of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) will be taken back legally, said the deputy mayor of Karachi, Arshad Vohra, while talking to the media at the Karachi Press Club on Friday. Responding to a question by The Express Tribune on the powers of KMC, he said that they were already preparing themselves on legal grounds. However, he pointed out that the Sindh government has formed a separate board for garbage collection in the city, Sindh Solid Waste Management Board, after which garbage collection is not the job of the KMC or the District Municipal Corporations (DMCs). He added that the DMCs still lift 4,000 tons of garbage in the city but as much as 8,000 tons of garbage remains unattended. According to him, they have requested the government to give KMC a grant of Rs2 billion at once so that they could clean the entire city in three months.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 29^th, 2016.