Karachi: The Karachi Circular Railways (KCR) Task Force has ordered that a comprehensive action plan should be formulated in order to remove illegal encroachments along the KCR route, according to a news report. This decision was taken during the first meeting of the KCR Task Force where it was decided that all such encroachments will be removed, and co-ordination will be done with different stakeholders to smoothen the process.
The task force is headed by Karachi Commissioner, divisional superintendent of Pakistan Railways, the deputy inspector general of Karachi, all deputy commissioners, director general of the Karachi Development Authority, and various other dignitaries from municipal corporations. The commissioner has directed all the deputy commissioners to prepare a comprehensive plan for the removal of all said encroachments. The commissioner has said that no compensation would be paid to the encroachers, unless they were the ‘deserving affectees’.
This project has only now picked up pace after Sindh Transport Minister Nasir Shah highlighted that the project has been brought under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor umbrella, and would be implemented by a Chinese company.
