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Govt wakes adult to a existence of fast urbanisation
- Updated: September 1, 2016
PESHAWAR: As an 18% boost in a civic race of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa stretches city limits, a initial critical beginning directed during addressing a hurdles by common believe is on a cards. The Community of Practice (CoP) on Sustainable Urbanisation hold a initial assembly during a hotel in a city on Wednesday.
With random urbanisation being one of a many critical concerns in K-P, like a rest of South Asia, many vital problems from civic flooding to civic assault have been traced behind to a rural-urban migration, interloper liquid and a mushrooming peri-urban spaces around a cities.
The conditions is exacerbated by a government’s inability to get a grasp over a matter. The legislative abyss after a 18th Constitutional Amendment has left provinces with a shortcoming to cope with a conditions but correct capacity-building, pronounced a participants of a meeting.
“Urban is a mindset, not a geographical entity” pronounced eminent economist Kaiser Bengali as he contemplated over a gloomy policies of a state when addressing a necessity of affordable housing for citizens. He pronounced a land mafia was doing some-more than anyone in this sector.
In a presentation, a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Urban Policy Unit pronounced not a singular master devise from 1985 had been implemented in a entirety. This highlighted that a city’s civic supervision devise was deficient given that time.
Punjab Urban Unit Director Ahmad Rafay Alam questioned a purpose of democracy if it unsuccessful during use delivery. CoP Chairperson Inayatullah Khan, who is also a comparison apportion in K-P, pronounced times had altered and comparison methods of preference creation were now obsolete. One of a vital issues a supervision faced was a miss of information whenever it was compulsory for evidence-based results.
Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 2nd, 2016.