THE slow pace of development in Karachi’s phase VIII in Defence Housing Authority has forced plot owners to abandon their plans to build houses. Instead they are seriously contemplating to sell their plots.
The permission to build was granted in Zone C more than five years ago. To-date there is no electricity, water or gas. Some owners who have built houses are suffering financially while a few who have no other option are living in great hardship using generators and other means to generate electricity for their homes.
To make matters worse, water connections are not being granted because water is not available in phase VIII.
The COGEN water desalination plant, which was inaugurated with great fanfare more than a decade ago, failed after a few months of operation and has been lying idle since.
These adverse conditions have made phase VIII unlivable. The authorities are requested to look in the matter.
Asif Jah
Karachi
Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2015
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