Karachi: Experts at a seminar, titled ‘A clean Karachi but how’, suggested that the government should prepare a master plan for the city with a focus on the provision of public transport and infrastructure facilities, a news source reported. The Citizens Foundation (TCF) and the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) organised this gathering at the PMA Office in Karachi on Friday.
Speakers present at the event expressed their concerns over the lack of a property master plan for the city, and stressed on the need for its development. The attendees later passed a resolution; asking the government to form a concrete master plan for the growing metropolis with a special focus on the provision of public transport, infrastructure and high-rises buildings.
They also passed another resolution demanding a sustainable plan for the commencement of a clean Karachi action programme – with an aim to implement transparency and accountability in the metropolis. The experts also discussed the problems being caused by an overlapping of power of various authorities in different parts of the city. They said that this hindered development work in Karachi. They called for clearly redefining the responsibilities of the city’s civic authorities and ensuring coordination between them.
