Murad forms committee to financially stabilise KMC.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday vowed to make the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) a stable organization by giving it a workable financial model and reorganizing its various wings responsible for revenue collection.

For the purpose, he constituted a committee headed by Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Shah with Law Advisor Murtaza Wahab, Local Government Secretary Najam Shah and KMC Administrator Laeeq Ahmed as members.

He asked the committee to submit their recommendations to make the KMC a financially stable organization.

The CM took this decision while presiding over a meeting held to review the financial condition of the KMC which failed to pay salaries to its senior employees from November and December 2020.

The LG minister said the DMCs had not only curtailed their non-development expenditures, but also enhanced their revenue collection.

Quoting the example of the DMC South, Nasir Shah said it used to collect Rs9 million from charged parking and now it enhanced the collection to Rs750m.

The minister also said the DMC Korangi had cut its spending on lifting of garbage from Rs20m to Rs9m only.

Similarly, he said the DMC Central had also enhanced its collection.

Briefing the CM, the administrator said there were around 1.4m...

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