Karachi (HRNW) On Thursday, the chief minister said the Sindh government was giving KMC a Rs170 million grant so it could play its senior employees who have been waiting for their salaries since November. KMC cannot afford to pay its salaries because it doesn’t make enough money. That is because the Sindh government has changed the laws 20 times at least, since 2010, to strip KMC of its ability to earn, charge fees and taxes.
On the other hand, the PPP had been giving more powers to the district municipal corporations (West, East, Central, South, Korangi, Malir). They can collect property tax, tolls, taxes on professions, markets, fees on births, marriages, adoptions and feasts, billboards, cinemas and motor vehicles.
The KMC cannot collect a conservancy tax, for example, because this is now managed by the new waste management board. The fee it could make on plot conversions is collected by the Sindh Building Control Authority. (SAMAA Digital has reported extensively on this in a long investigation: Crazy Rich Karachi.)
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