Outgrown untidiness and decayed infrastructure have struck nearly 200 markets in the metropolis, downsizing business activities to 50 percent, traders said on Thursday. The city grows into a complete disorder, as no governance is visible to normalize the civic infrastructure for public and traders, according to the traders of old city area. They said that there is no infrastructure in markets to facilitate the customers, as sewerage water spills over already broken roads.
"It is evident that there is no government in place to look after the city," Chairman All Karachi Tajir Ittehad, Atiq Mir told Business Recorder, saying that "institutions confront institutions in the province". He said that the rivalry between the local and Sindh government has virtually left the city in ruined state as decades old infrastructure have started crumbling from none maintenance making hard for traders to augment their businesses.
"Heaps of garbage and running sewerage water on roads in nearly 200 markets in different parts of the city are the trouble phenomenon that not only public but traders face," he said, alleging that "those departments responsible for civic infrastructure developments are behind its deterioration". "Buyers never visit markets which roads and streets are dirty," he added. On extortions, Atiq Mir said that the Rangers have successfully ended the menace from the city.