KMC’s parks department pruning trees before monsoon rainfalls
June 12, 2021
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) parks and horticulture department has started trimming and pruning work of old trees and sapling plantation on roads and arteries before the monsoon season hits the city.
The branches of the trees should be trimmed so that they do not obstruct the traffic, KMC Administrator Laeeq Ahmed Khan directed the parks department. According to a statement issued by the KMC, the staff of the parks and horticulture department was working at Sharae Faisal, Kidney Hill Park, Aziz Bhatti Park, Shaheed Millat Road, University Road and other places. Civil society and various welfare organisations, including Faizan Global Relief Foundation, NED University of Engineering and Technology and Rotary International, were also assisting the KMC in this regard.
The Sindh environment department will set up three sewage treatment plants in Karachi. Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister on Law and Environment Barrister Murtaza Wahab said this on Wednesday while.
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has removed encroachments from 1.5-acre land of the Kidney Hill Park in Karachi s Dhoraji Colony, an official said Saturday. The anti-encroachment operation was led by KMC Senior Director Bashir Siddiqui, together with the East district administration, police and city wardens. During the drive, KMC staffers removed encroachments in and around the Kidney Hill Park. They demolished illegal structures on 1.5-acre land, according to Siddiqui. The parking lot of Zubaida General Hospital and guard rooms were razed too. The operation is being conducted on the orders of the Supreme Court and it would continue until the recovery of the whole land. .
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday came down hard on the provincial and local authorities over unauthorised allotment of land and lack of town planning in the metropolis.
A three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed slammed the Karachi commissioner, director general of the Sindh Building Control Authority and a senior member of the Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) as they failed to offer any explanation about the incorporation of land reserved for a road into a plot in the Sindhi Muslim Housing Society.
The visibly irked chief justice wondered under what law a mukhtiarkar could operate on the land of a housing society after a report of the mukhtiarkar was placed before the bench about leasing out the plot in question and a 15-storey building known as Nasla Tower built on it.