KARACHI, Nov 16: A meeting of the Karachi Goth Regularization Committee was held here Thursday with its chairman Sindh minister Irfanullah Khan Marwat in the chair.
The meeting discussed the issue of regularization of villages and decided to expedite the task soon. Irfanullah Khan Marwat said 808 Sindh goths were in Karachi, out of them 458 goths had already been regularized by issuing ownership rights to 51,421 villagers, while the remaining 350 goths would be regularized soon.
He said that the goth regularization process was being carried out on merit basis. He said all civic facilities, including roads, schools, power, water and hospitals, would be provided to these goths. He said that work of regularizing old Sindh Goths of Karachi was in process with accelerated pace.
He asked the officers concerned to take action against those groups that had illegally occupied government land in Karachi. He said all encroachers should be dealt with according to law. He said if any officer was found helping these groups, he would also be taken to the task.—PPI