KMC to provide alternative place to shopkeepers

Encroachments were removed from city drains, parks and pavements to facilitate citizens, says Karachi mayor

KARACHI: Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar has said that the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) wants to give alternative shops to its tenants, including the shopkeepers of Light House Lunda Bazar, whose shops were demolished during the anti-encroachment drive.

He expressed these views while talking to a delegation of the Light House Traders Association, which was led by its president, Hakeem Shah.

“A team comprising KMC officers and members of Light House Traders Association would conduct a joint survey of different areas to provide them with an alternative place to conduct business,” he said.

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He added that encroachments were removed from city drains, parks and pavements to facilitate citizens.

The members of the delegation expressed their concerns saying their shops were removed a year ago and they were facing hardships since then.

They said that they support the steps of the mayor for the betterment of the city and hope that they would get an alternative place for doing their business.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 22^nd, 2019.