750 newspaper stalls will not be treated as encroachments
KARACHI (April 22 2007): Nazim Karachi, Syed Mustafa Kamal has exempted over 750 newspaper stalls in various parts of the city as being encroachments and said the steps taken by former Commissioner Karachi about them will be implemented.
Accordingly such cabins of 4X4 size where only newspapers are being sold and have been put at right places would not be removed and issued authority letters on behalf of the city government. He was talking to a delegation of office-bearers of newspaper hawkers association, led their President Syed Afzal Shah on Saturday.
Nazim Karachi said they would be issued written authority letter, which every hawker will display at his cabin. He said it is pleasing that some 15,000 people are associated with the profession of selling newspapers and delivering them at homes and offices. He said government will provide their business full protection.
He advised them to get their Co-operative Housing Society registered so that step could be taken for providing them land. He said the government policy is to provide cheaper housing facilities to low income people and since newspaper hawking is an important profession, all possible steps would be taken for solving the hawker’s problems.
The Nazim told the Hawker’s Association that since the city has far expanded; therefore they should identify proper places for an increase in the points for better newspaper distribution work. He said they would be given space under flyovers.
He said Haq Parast leadership of city government does not believe in cheap publicity but it is essential to keep people informed about public welfare projects so as to elicit their opinion about the steps being taken by the leadership. Syed Afzal Shah praised the 18 months performance of City’s Nazim and said the projects implemented during this period find no parallel in the 59 years history of Pakistan and all credit for this goes to MQM Chief Altaf Hussain who selected a person like Mustafa Kamal as Nazim of Karachi.
He referred to written authority issued by the then Commissioner Karachi and said the hawker’s stalls should not be removed as being encroachment. He informed that at present 15,000 hawkers distribute newspapers from city’s 29 points. They belong to low income group and their problems were never solved by anyone. He demanded that like journalists, the hawkers too should be allotted plots.
Source: Business Recorder
Date:4/22/2007
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