Delegation Of Zoo Market Association Calls On Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar

Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar Wednesday said that the action around the Karachi Zoo and Lea Market has to be carried out whereas removal of encroachments from other sites was done.

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Jan, 2019 ) :Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar Wednesday said that the action around the Karachi Zoo and Lea Market has to be carried out whereas removal of encroachments from other sites was done.

He said this while talking to a delegation of the Zoological Garden Market Association led by its General Secretary Muhammad Asif Shahzad which called on him at his office, said a statement.

The Mayor said that Supreme Court has directed to remove the shops within a month which were built on city drains, footpaths and amenity plots fifty years ago by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and given on rent.

The Mayor said that the Supreme Court verdict was on the petition filed by former city Nazim Naimatullah Khan under which no commercial activities can be done on parks, drains and footpaths and subsequently all Federal and provincial government organizations and the KMC were directed to take the action in fifteen days and submit their reports.

He said that the action being accordingly carried out by all these organizations. The KMC is not alone in this and mayor is not making the decision, he added.

He said that the balloting for allotment of alternative shops to affected traders will be held in the Commissioner Karachi Office next week.

He said that all the shopkeepers who were paying rent to the KMC will get alternative place for their businesses.

He called upon the delegation members to vacate their shops around Zoo by Friday as the action will be taken on Saturday and Sunday.