KARACHI: 1,450 cancelled land allotments restored: Sindh Cabinet meets
KARACHI, Oct 14: The Sindh Cabinet meeting, chaired by the chief minister on Tuesday, gave approval to the allotment of lands, which had been sold since 1985 on concession, but the allotments had been cancelled later.
Briefing newsmen about the approval, the adviser to the chief minister on information, Salahuddin Haider and secretary information, Mehtab Akbar Rashdi said the cabinet noted that there was no fault on the part of people, who bought such land.
It was observed that the allottees, numbering about 1,450, were upset because of the cancellation of allotments.
The cabinet, in view of the report of five-member committee headed by Justice Syed Abdul Rehman, termed such allotments as valid and allowed regularization as well as conversion of the land thus allotted.
It was decided that the prices of such plots would be determined on the basis of market rates of that time and the allottees would be allowed regularization on payment of the rest of the amount. It was estimated that around Rs12 billion to Rs15 billion would be recovered with the regularization of these plots.
The cabinet approved the allotment of 20 acres land at Super Highway at Rs0.5 million per acre and on a 99-year lease to NESTLE for the establishment of an industry.
Meanwhile, the cabinet meeting discussed law and order situation in the province.
The cabinet was informed that important clues had been obtained about the killings of SUPARCO employees as well as the five brothers in Patel Para. The cabinet was informed that the details about the clues would be disclosed in a couple of days.
The inspector general of police, Syed Kamal Shah, informed the cabinet that the assailants of journalist Amir Bux Brohi, who was murdered in Shikarpur, had also been identified and the details thereof would be given in a day or two.
The IGP expressed his apprehension about more attacks on mosques, Imambargahs and foreign missions through suicide bombing. He said that all possible preventive measures had been taken and 7,000 police personnel had been deployed for security of missions, mosques and Imambargahs.
The provincial police chief told the cabinet that aside from some minor incidents, no major incident took place as a reaction to the assassination of MNA Maulana Azam Tariq.
In addition to the revamping of CID as a part of security arrangements, he said, a total of 15 monitoring cameras had been installed at vantage locations in the city. In all, he added, 100 cameras would be installed in Karachi.
The cabinet accorded approval for acquisition of 100 vehicles, which would remain exclusively at the disposal of city police stations for provision of timely assistance to people in hour of need.
According to another decision, the cabinet formed a five- member committee for proposing amendments in the Police Order- 2002 that had been partially implemented. Adviser Home will head the committee with Senior Minister Syed Sardar Ahmed, Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari, Irfanullah Khan Marwat and Nadir Akmal Leghari as its members.
Expressing concern over the rising prices of essential commodities before the start of Ramazan, the cabinet decided to take various measures to contain the price hike.
The chief minister ordered for the establishment of special bazaars so that the fasting Muslims are provided items of daily use at reasonable prices.
The meeting discussed a proposal that public representatives should be associated with the price control actions.—APP
