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Sunday, May 18, 2008
A new controversy has erupted in the tussle between the Sindh government and City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal after the latter declared that the Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) was an ‘illegal’ body. Kamal has advised the citizens against seeking approval for their building drawings and maps from the KBCA.
Kamal, while informally talking to newsmen at his office on Saturday, said that drawings and maps submitted on or before April 29, 2008, at the KBCA stand illegal and has advised Town Nazims to stop all such constructions in their respective jurisdictions.
The Nazim said that all such constructions declared illegal would be demolished.
When it was pointed out to him that the KBCA has abolished betterment charges for construction on the outskirts of the city, Mustafa said that this order was illegal and that betterment charges have not been abolished.
The city Nazim also advised the citizens to approach their respective towns to clear such matters and said that, in this connection, the town administrations had been asked to establish a desk dedicated to this purpose.
The City Nazim also gave the Association of Builders and Developers (ABAD) the same advice.
The Nazim said that huge bribes were being doled out for the approval of drawings and maps in the KBCA.
He stressed that KBCA, at present, had no legal status and efforts were on to give it a practical shape by virtue of which the KBCA has been terminated at the town level. Kamal said he was taking this action using his powers under the Sindh Local Government Ordinance.
It may be noted here that the Sindh Minister for Local Government, Agha Siraj Durrani, had declared himself as chairman of KBCA and KWSB and said the former was an independent authority.
The city Nazim had, on the contrary, earlier declared that the KBCA controller was now an Execuitive District Officer (EDO) as was the KWSB Managing Director, and that the KBCA and KWSB were now departments of the CDGK.
The row had died down after the city Nazim left for a tour of the United States. This latest development in the controversy at the local bodies level comes despite the fact that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is now a coalition partner of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the provincial government.
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