Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has kicked-off road carpeting and repairing work around Jama Cloth Market and Urdu Bazar area at a cost of Rs 80 million, Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar said.

Talking to the media during his visit to Urdu Bazar and Jama Cloth Market, Waseem said the civic body despite having limited financial resources was making its all out efforts to facilitate citizens including traders.

Mayor inspected the ongoing work at site along with chairman works committee Hasan Naqvi, chairman estate committee Nasir Khan Taimuri, UC chairperson Abida Sultana and other elected representatives.

Expressing his views mayor said a big issue of this area has been resolved with the correction of sewerage system and repairing and carpeting of roads and different streets.

He said the traders and residents of this area had trouble due to broken roads and scattered sewage and it was hard to do business in such conditions.

It's relevant to mention here that the area traders staged sit-in near Urdu Bazar against the dilapidated civic infrastructures a few days back that might have prompted KMC to initiate the road carpeting work.

Mayor said the provincial government must pay special attention on the issues facing by the commercial markets in the city.

Wasim said Karachi needs an special and urgent uplift package to overhaul the basic infrastructure of city.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019