KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and other concerned departments continued an anti-encroachment drive along Mehmoodabad nullah on Tuesday.
According to details, the municipal officers resumed demolition of soft encroachments in the area with machinery. After January 07, concrete encroachments would also be removed including partial demolition of 57 houses built at the encroached land.
On Monday, the city officials removed structures on about seven-and-a-half-kilometer area in the anti-encroachment drive along Mehmoodabad nullah. The encroached areas and walls of houses and shops were either cleared away or demolished.
The operation is said to be continued for four days straight in collaboration with KMC and other relevant city agencies. In December, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah chaired a meeting to contemplate development projects and drainage infrastructure of Karachi.
The session deliberated over various nullahs across Karachi wherein the CM said they have asked NED University to study and survey all the important lines for remodeling.
CM Shah noted in the session that remodeling of Mehmoodabad Nullah has been completed. The remodeling based on the study would mean the Nullah would be able to drain inundation by 270mm within 12 hours, CM briefed the session.
The nullah has a six-meter depth at the Korangi road at the moment and for its remodelling according to NED study, we’ll have to bulldoze 319 structures built on its land, CM said.
