Karachi car dealers agree to vacate footpaths

KARACHI: The members of the Karachi Car Dealers Association on Tuesday agreed to vacate footpaths and park their cars elsewhere, ARY News reported.

They agreed to this after talks with the Sindh government, led by Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation Mukesh Kumar Chawala.

The provincial government has assured the car dealers of allocation of new parking spaces for their vehicles.

The association said the footpaths would be vacated on demand of the provincial government. It said spaces would be allocated for car parking.

The Car Dealers Association said the showrooms which had been sealed will be reopened by tonight.

“Some showroom owners have given application to commercialise the spaces, while the other showroom owners are also ready to regularize the spaces,” said the car dealers.

In September 2017, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had said that he had constructed important roads of the city and now it was the responsibility of shopkeepers and traders to keep their areas clean and save them from encroachments.

The chief minister while speaking to a delegation of Tariq Road Traders Welfare Association led by President Aslam Bhatti, had said that he had reconstructed important roads such as Tariq Road, Saddar, University Road and others which were hub of business activities.

“I am sorry to say, I have personally witnessed that the traders throw away waste and filth of their shops on the roads, though dustbin are lying there,” he said and urged the association to stop them from making their newly constructed areas filthy.