The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has announced that the master plan for the restoration of Sharea Faisal to make it a “beautiful identity of the city” is in its final.
It was decided that official rates for burials in cemeteries would be fixed at Rs9,000 which would be strictly enforced. Reuters/File
KARACHI: An eight-member central committee, comprising Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) officers and representatives of welfare organisations, set up on directives of city Administrator Laeeq Ahmed to improve condition of cemeteries, decided to take several steps under which gravediggers and other staff working in cemeteries would be registered and they would be issued regular identity cards.
In the first meeting of the central committee many decisions were taken under which persons under age of 18 years would not be eligible to perform any work in graveyard.
KMC signs MoU with welfare organisations for improvement of graveyards
Karachi
May 6, 2021
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has formed a central committee and subcommittees to improve the condition of cemeteries, end monopoly of graveyard mafia and facilitate the process of burials. The cooperation and collaboration of civil society, and social and welfare organisations has also been [ensured] so that the complaints of the citizens regarding the cemeteries can be resolved, KMC Administrator Laeeq Ahmed said during the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Sailani Welfare Trust and Jaffaria Disaster Management Cell (JDC) Welfare Foundation for the management of new cemeteries.