Karachi: The district administration has launched a section for the resettlement and rehabilitation of traders displaced during the ongoing anti-encroachment drive, a news source reported. The section has been launched on the directives of Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar.
Sources close to the development said that Noor-ul-Haq, a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) engineer, has been appointed as the section’s head. KMC’s engineering department would also ensure the removal of debris on priority basis.
Sindh Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani said the city administration would accommodate 3,500 KMC tenants in temporary structures in the first phase. The shops would be constructed in KMC markers and government land. In the second phase, he added, displaced traders not paying rent to KMC would be provided a place to run their businesses.
KMC had earlier decided to lodge criminal cases against traders involved in re-establishing encroachments. The violators would be booked under relevant sections of Pakistan Penal Code and Sindh Public Property (Removal of Encroachment) Act.
