The land prices in the Karachi have blown out of the  sky. An average white collar worker earning about Rs15,000/- cannot even dream about buying land which cost 10s of millions in a habitable locality or Houses or Apartments at same kind of prices.

As a result huge population is forced to alter their existing Houses or Apartments.

This puts these residence directly in harms ( Karachi Building Control Authority  (KBCA)) way.

Old house that were build to sustain a few souls now have multiple families living in them in buildings that present a good jigsaw puzzle in consutruction terms.
 

Alter your home and KBCA will land upon you. And ultimately people are forced to bribe KBCA to let their constructions stand.

The interest of general public is access to affordable housing when that housing is limited or not available to majority of the population it creates conflict of interest between citizens and KBCA.

As a result citizens have created a monster out of the officers of the building control authority in their naivety. These officer understand the gap in housing demand and supply and will ask for any type of amounts to full their pockets.

Citizens are how in between a rock and hard place. They cannot buy new residences and alteration risks demolishment of their houses if they cannot agree to settlement with KBCA staff.

Its situations like these which can fail any organization. KBCA will fail too, because the people it is suppose to serve are bent upon their right to a roof over their heads and the mandate which KBCA is suppose to promote is built out of thin air without taking into consideration the ground realities.

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