The Sindh government has approved Reverse Osmosis Water Plant (RO) for Journalists' Housing Society at Hawksbay Scheme 42. This was informed by Additional Director General Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) Agha Maqsood Abbas while taking to Karachi Press Club representatives during his visit to KPC on Thursday.
Construction of the plant would be kicked-off by March this year as Local Bodies Minister Jam Shoro has already released funds for the project, he added.
Talking to the KPC representatives, the SBCA's ADG said the RO plant would have a capacity to supply some one million gallon per day (GPD) to cater the requirements of the housing society.
He said the low cost housing schemes would be initiated in the metropolis soon.
A large portion of the residents of Karachi consists of low-paid white-collar people and provision of housing to them at reasonable cost is quite an issue.
Agha Maqsood said that talks in this regard are being held with the officials of the Association of Builders and Developers (ABAD) and SBCA has extended various incentives to the ABAD members for the low cost housing schemes.
The ABAD members are also coming up with planning in this regard, he added. He said that construction issues, approval of building plans and commercial projects, there would be one-window systems which would also be on-line to facilitate people in Karachi and other parts of the province.
He was of the view that the purpose of the SBCA is to check illegal and unplanned constructions in the urban areas of the province.
Building of additional floors without necessary approval was also a problem and efforts are being made to overcome this and that illegal constructions would not be tolerated. The SBCA ADG said that service code for the employees of the organisation has been formulated and a summary has also been moved to the Chief Minister for constitution of the SBCA's Governing Body.