CDGK agrees to give encroachers 60% of land
KARACHI: For the speedy construction of the city’s first-ever multi-storey parking plaza at Empress Market, Saddar, the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has offered to give two-thirds of the space already occupied by over 50 petitioners as an incentive for them to abandon their encroached land, CDGK’s EDO Law told a bench of the High Court of Sindh (SHC) on Thursday.
The bench was hearing a constitutional petition filed by the occupants of the area where the CDGK is to build the ambitious project. The petitioners maintain that they have been operating in the area for decades and if they were suddenly removed they would go out of business and their families would suffer. They also maintained that the CDGK was bound to provide them with an appropriate alternative so they could continue their business and sustain their families. They alleged that the alternate space and size offered to them was too small.
Earlier, while the petition was pending, the parties charted out a settlement, which the CDGK submitted before the bench on Thursday. The bench allowed the request and ordered the petitioners to be shifted immediately, while the land should be re-inspected.
Source: Daily Times
Date:11/30/2007
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