City administration plans to demolish rickety buildings

Meeting mulls ways to evict people living in crumbling structures

KARACHI:

The Karachi administration, on Wednesday, decided to take comprehensive and effective action against illegal constructions, evacuation of residents from uninhabitable and dangerous buildings and resolving the longstanding issues of demolition of such buildings in the metropolis.

Following the directives of Sindh Chief Secretary, Sohail Rajput, in this regard, a meeting chaired by Katachi Commissioner, Muhammad Iqbal Memon, contemplated on action for demolition of worn out structures and possible obstacles in the way of implementing the government's decisions to vacate the decayed buildings.

Sindh Secretary for Local Government, Najam Shah briefed the meeting about the details of action against illegal buildings.

The meeting decided that the Karachi administration, in consultation with the Sindh Buildings Control Authority (SBCA) would ensure the evacuation of residents and demolition of rickety buildings under the supervision of the concerned deputy commissioners.

Approving demolition of the most deteriorated structures at the earliest it was also decided in the meeting that buildings posing threat to life and safety of people will be demolished in phases and in the first phase building categorised by SBCA as the most dangerous will be razed.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 9^th, 2022.