KARACHI: Hawkes Bay scheme cleared of encroachments: Compensation paid to expressway affected
KARACHI, Dec 2: The Special Anti-encroachment Squad of the Revenue Department of City District Government on Monday removed all the encroachments from the lands allocated for Journalists’ Housing Scheme in Hawkes Bay, Scheme No. 42 and the residential scheme for the affectees of Lyari Expressway.
The DCO, Shafiqur Rehman Paracha, had issued directives to the concerned department for the removal of the encroachments on the journalists’ land so that the land could be handed over to the allottees.
The Squad, escorted by police force, removed the slum dwellings, huts, shelters, etc. during the day-long operation on Monday. The illegal occupants offered a little resistance but the two forces, with the support of the administration officials, took the situation under control without any untoward incident.
In a separate operation, encroachments on the land allotted to the affectees of Lyari Expressway were also removed peacefully.
The District Officer (Enforcement), Salman Faridi, monitored the operations and the concerned TPO supervised them.
COMPENSATION: The City Government has accelerated its efforts to disburse relief cheques and allotment papers of alternative plots among the affectees of Lyari Expressway project.
In this regard, a meeting was held here the other day during which the City Nazim, Naimatullah Khan, distributed allotment papers for 80-square-yards plots and cheques worth Rs50,000 each among 1,200 affected families belonging to the Expressway site stretched over Love Lane-Lasbella Bridge sector.
The City Nazim told the meeting that the project had been launched in the greater interest of Karachiites themselves. He said that those who had voluntarily decided to vacate their abodes for the successful completion of the project deserved appreciation. “They have to be duly compensated also,” he remarked.
He reminded that the living along the course of Lyari River could not be considered as a good option and that the alternative, offered to the affected families, was much better as all the basic civic amenities had been made available there.
He pointed out that street lights had already been installed whereas educational institutions were being established at the newly developed site.—PPI/APP
