Chairman Korangi District Syed Nayyar Raza has said that the biggest hurdle in the way of development is scarce resources. We are trying to increase revenue, with collection and filling the gaps and leakages of the system, he said. Speaking at Korangi association of Trade and Industry (KATI) he offered the business community to adopt schools and health care facilities suffering due to fund shortage.

While responding to President of KATI Masood Naqi offer to assist in revenue connection, Nayyar Raza assured that revenue collected from Korangi Industrial Area would spend on the area development. He said that DMC would not charge Parking from industries. He advised the industrialist of the area to come forward for the beautification and planting in KIA.

President of KATI Masood Naqi said that everybody can understand, that revenue collection is a big challenge for DMC and offered to provide our assistance for the collection, but it should be assured that funds would be spend on the development of the area primarily. Issues like parking, encroachments, garbage collection and other administrative issues are now directly affecting performance of the Industry situated in KIA" Naqi said.

He asked the chairman to appoint a focal person to co-ordinate with representatives of the KIA for identifying the areas of concern and further planning to resolve them. KATI's standing committee on local bodies head Zubair Chhaya said we are facing hard times since along, now the problems should be resolved. Senior Vice President of KATI Ghazanfar Ali indicated increasing street crime in the locality due to depleted road infrastructure and garbage piles near to roundabouts. Former President of KATI Zahid Saeed said that we are ready to support local bodies for funds allocations demands from provincial and federal governments.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2017