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Explained: How people will be compensated along Gujjar Nullah
Houses destroyed over 30% eligible SAMAA | Sohail Khan - Posted: Feb 23, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago SAMAA | Sohail Khan Posted: Feb 23, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago
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The Sindh government will be financially compensating the people who will be losing their homes along Gujjar, Mehmoodabad and Orangi nullahs, which are frantically being cleared and widened before the next monsoon rains in Karachi. These three nullahs are the main ones that drain rainwater from the city into the sea but because they have been clogged up, surrounding neighbourhoods flooded to the point of crisis last August.Prime Minister Imran Khan tasked the National Disaster Management Authority with the job and it teamed up with the Sindh government to remodel the nullahs. Concrete structures on their banks would be removed to widen them so rainwater flows unobstructed.
KMC starts demolishing houses along Gujjar Nullah
Residents have been compensated, claims city govt SAMAA | Sohail Khan and Aamir Majeed - Posted: Feb 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago SAMAA | Sohail Khan and Aamir Majeed Posted: Feb 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago
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This story has been updated Feb 23, 2021 to include fresh information on compensation from the government
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has started demolishing houses along the Gujjar Nullah.
The 12.58km nullah starts from New Karachi near Noorani Muhallah and ends at Liaquatabad near Haji Mureed Goth. It is being cleared on the recommendations of a technical team to