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Deadline approaches: District South moves to mislay billboards, several continue to dot skyline
- Updated: July 25, 2016
The skins of billboards on Korangi Road (left) have been private though Sharae Faisal (right) continues to be dotted with hoardings. PHOTOS: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS
KARACHI: District South seems to have done efforts to follow a Supreme Court (SC) orders to mislay billboards on open properties though several hoardings continue to line a streets.
The South District Municipal Corporation has sped adult a expostulate to mislay billboards though Korangi Road, Sharae Faisal and several roads in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) are still lined with outside hoardings.
On Friday, a SC gave a final deadline of 3 days to all a county agencies, including a administrators of all district metropolitan companies (DMCs) and a arch executive officers (CEOs) of a cantonment boards, and warned that disregard charges will be framed opposite them if hoardings are still found in their particular jurisdictions. On Jul 14, a peak justice had already postulated an additional week to all a county bodies to take down bootleg billboards as a strange deadline set by it lapsed on Jun 30.
According to South DMC director Muhammad Naeem, they had 192 billboards on open property, that have all been removed. There were 10 billboards on private property, that were extending onto a highway and have been removed, he forked out. Naeem combined that there were a few billboards owned by Pakistan Railways that were in their office so they got absolved of them as well.
Beyond South DMC, District South also includes areas that tumble underneath a office of Cantonment Board Karachi (CBK) and Cantonment Board Clifton, that are also overhanging into movement as a SC deadline nears. There were 106 billboards on open skill within CBK and all of them have been removed, claimed CBK’s billboard in-charge, who requested anonymity. The ones that continue to line Sharae Faisal tumble underneath a army’s jurisdiction, he forked out, adding that they are in a routine of stealing these.
The dual outrageous hoardings, that still occupy a open space nearby FTC Flyover, a central pronounced that they belonged to Pakistan Railways and a officials should step adult to mislay them. For his part, Pakistan Railways multiplication officer Muhammad Nasir denied carrying any billboards on open property. The particular municipality in a district gives accede to implement any billboard on a land, he said, adding that CBK is ostensible to mislay a hulk billboards nearby FTC Flyover. As for a billboards on Korangi Road and tools of DHA, CBC hoarding in-charge Faisal Jadoon insisted they were not located on open property. This valid fake during a revisit to Korangi Road, where several billboards are clearly encroaching footpaths. Jadoon also denied there were any billboards on open skill within DHA.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jul 26th, 2016.