As many as 98 percent commercial buildings are functioning without obtaining completion certificates. According to the building by-laws of Capital Development Authority (CDA), every building has to get a completion certificate after the completion of construction and before starting any activity, but unfortunately, only one building in Blue Area has obtained it. I ordered the staff to do a fresh survey so the exact figures of the commercial buildings operational without completion certificate come to the fore and so the violators/building owners face the music,” he said. On the directions of Supreme Court last year, the CDA started a drive to remove commercial activities from residential areas. In December last year, the E&DM Directorate marked 257 commercial and 148 industrial buildings as dangerous and not emergency ready.

Source: Pakistan Today December 25, 2017 09:00 UTC