KARACHI: Mayor of Karachi, Wasim Akhtar said the elected local government leadership supports the journalist community and KMC will provide help for setting up of press club in the Sahafi Colony at Hawkesbay.
Sindh Board of Revenue and other concerned organizations will be contacted for provision of lease of plots and other facilities, he said this while talking to journalists on a visit of the Sahafi Colony at Hawkesbay on Thursday, said a statement.
Lyari development authority chief executive Agha Nafees, dir ector media management KMC Ali Hassan Sajid, president of Karachi Press Club Ahemd Khan Malik, vice president Minhaj-ur-Rab, Gen. Secretary Maqsood Ahmed Yousufi, joint secretary Naimat Khan, treasurer Moosa Kalim, former secretary Khursheed Abbasi and other senior journalists were also present on this occasion.
In a briefing about the project, Mayor Karachi was informed that plots at Sahafi Colony were allotted 22 years ago for which journalist and the government had to pay 20 and 80 percent of cost of the land respectively.
In the initial phase development works amounting to Rs. 10 crores were done however journalist were unable to construct their house on it due to absence of any development works and lying of basic infrastructure at the site.
The Mayor said lying of basic infrastructure including construction of roads and installation of water and sewerage lines is essential in the Sahafi Colony.
He appreciated the services and efforts of journalist community in the restoration of democracy and said that the press club has been the only place where the deprived and suppressed class can raise its voice.
He said whatever help and cooperation is required from KMC will be provided to the journalist community.
He said that he along with the office bearers and governing body members of the KPC will hold meeting next week with the authorities of board of revenue, KWSB and LDA to setup strategy for solving the problems.
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