Development work needed: ICCI urges CDA to address water shortages

Ask civic authority to complete unfinished road works in the Sector I-10 auto market

ISLAMABAD: The capital’s businessmen on Monday called upon the top civic body to address the acute water shortage in the key business area of Sector I-10 of the federal capital.

Speaking at an oath-taking ceremony of newly elected office bearers of Traders Welfare Association (TWA) of the automobile market in Sector I-10/3, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) President Sheikh Amir Waheed, said the market was playing a key role in providing jobs and promoting business activities of the city.

He thus urged the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to address its issues on a priority basis.

The ICCI president further suggested that CDA should expand the auto market in Sector I-10/3 by allotting additional plots so that all auto workshops scattered all over the federal capital could be shifted and concentrated in this market.

He added that people, including the business community, were facing serious problems in the city, particularly from water shortage in Sector I-10 and urged that CDA should address this issue on a priority basis.

He called upon the incoming government of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to consider giving representation to ICCI on the CDA’s Board so that issues of the business community could be resolved smoothly. ICCI Senior Vice President Naveed Malik, ICCI Vice President Nisar Mirza and former ICCI president Muhammad Ejaz Abbasi congratulated the newly elected office bearers of TWA Auto Market Sector I-10/3 and said that efforts would be made to engage the new government and to convince it to build flats for small traders on ownership-basis in Islamabad to resolve their residential issues.

They assured that ICCI would cooperate in resolving key issues of the market.

Raja Musharraf Janjua, the newly elected president of the TWA Auto Market Sector I-10/3 said that CDA had only partially carpeted of some roads in the markets and urged the civic agency to complete its unfinished job.

Janjua said a bridge was urgently needed in the market to which the CDA must pay urgent attention to.

While the CDA has allowed the construction of an additional storey in the markets, he urged the CDA to revise these charges to make them more affordable for traders. 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 31^st, 2018.