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Karachi has 354 dangerous buildings, says SBCA

By our correspondents
May 30, 2017

The Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) announced on Monday that
the number of dangerous buildings in Karachi stood at 354.

A statement said most of the buildings were located in Saddar Town-One numbering 215, while Saddar Town-Two had 57 such buildings.

It said that according to the authority’s technical committee for dangerous buildings, there was a danger that the dilapidated buildings may collapse.

The statement said the SBCA had got vacated several of the dilapidated buildings a d demolished some others. It said the survey regarding the dangerous buildings was still being carried out and people had been requested to inform the SBCA about the unsafe buildings.—APP

News Desk adds: The SBCA had imposed a ban on the construction multi–storey buildings in the Karachi region on May 25.

The authority issued a notification of the ban while acting on the Supreme Court order of March 16, 2017. According to the notification, issued by SBCA Director General Agha Maqsood Abbas, in future, only ground-plus-two buildings would be allowed in the city. 

Dozens of high-rises without a parking lot have been built in the metropolis over the past decade, causing civic problems.

Earlier, the Sindh High Court had ordered the SBCA to stop issuing new no-objection certificates for high-rises in the Mirpurkhas district.

The Hyderabad Circuit Bench had ordered the authority to create a master plan for the Mirpurkhas city before the ban on high-rises could be lifted.

The order came over a petition filed by a citizen, Abdul Nasir Khan, a resident of the Mirpurkhas district.

During the hearing, a report prepared by the Mirpurkhas commissioner was submitted to the Sindh High Court, according to which 16 high-rises had been built in the district so far.