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Lahore city govt to demolish, repair dangerous buildings

By our correspondents
September 22, 2017

LAHORE: The city government has decided to complete the action of demolish or repair of buildings, identified as dangerous by experts.

Officials said an important meeting was held regarding the dangerous buildings in the provincial capital, which was chaired by Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Rao Imtiaz at DC office here Thursday.The meeting was attended by the representatives of LDA, education, health, building and other departments.

Each zone building section in charge briefed the chair about action taken up until now and about action yet to be taken, on which Rao Imtiaz (Additional Deputy Commissioner General) directed to complete the action of demolishing or repairing of buildings, identified as dangerous by experts, until next meeting; otherwise, strict action will be taken against relevant officers.It is worth mentioning here that 476 buildings were declared dangerous in the city by experts; 157 buildings were to be demolished out of which 142 buildings had been demolished so far.

Similarly 276 buildings were identified which needed to be repaired, out of which 142 buildings had been repaired as yet. The decision either to demolish or repair 43 buildings would be taken soon, Rao concluded.