KARACHI, April 20: The City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, has said the city government was gearing up its campaign to check and discourage illegal and haphazard publicity boards in the city to remove them within a month.

He said this in a meeting with Adviser to Chief Minister Fatima Surayya Bajiya, Fauzia Siddiqi and others at his office on Thursday.

The nazim said the recklessly and haphazardly increasing number of billboards was not only becoming a source of accidents but also affecting the city’s beauty.

It had, therefore, been decided to clear the city of all hoardings in the first phase and then allow them under the city council’s newly approved policy, he said.

He said that in order to bring the number of billboards to zero level, the city government was soon going to auction the spots after which only successful bidders would be allowed to install boards.

Fauzia Siddiqi told the nazim that her organization was working for providing free medical facilities to deserving children, adding that so far 2,500 children had been treated for TB and Cancer.

Besides, in every poor settlement, where there were no water lines, wells were dug with the cooperation of philanthropists, she said.—APP