KARACHI: Karachi Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab said on Wednesday that the city infrastructure could be improved through public-private partnership projects, so industrialists should pay municipal tax to KMC in the same way as they pay taxes to the federal government.
“The Municipal Corporation of Karachi is paying special attention to the repair and restoration of roads and bridges of Korangi Industrial Area, and soon this area will see a positive change,” he said while talking to the industrialists and exporters of leather industry at the office of Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) located in Korangi Industrial Area Sector 7-A. Pakistan Tanners Association Chairman Muhammad Shafi, Vice Chairman Tahir Iqbal, Convener CPLC M Danish Khan, and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Aziz Ahmed were also present on the occasion.
Mr Wahab said that it was important to develop the industrial areas of the city and solve the problems there on priority basis. He said that KMC, through the cooperation and guidance of industrialists’ associations based in Korangi, had made several projects to solve the problems of water and sewerage in the area and improved the basic infrastructure.
The mayor said: “All available resources are being spent on carrying out development works on an equal basis in different areas of Karachi, and special attention is being paid to resolving the problems of residential and industrial areas of the city.”
Pakistan Tanners Association Chairman Muhammad Shafi on behalf of the association members assured full support to the Karachi mayor for the construction and development of the city. He said that the mayor’s visit to PTA office had made them aware of the projects for the development of Karachi, especially the importance of municipal utility tax which KMC collects.
“We assure full cooperation in this regard because the payment of municipal tax is in the interest of the city itself, and we want that the problems of the citizens in the whole city should be resolved and the current process of construction and development should continue smoothly,” he added.