Naseebullah Khan
Balochistan Town planning and building rule 2021 by the government of Balochistan is an eye-catching document, while reading, one feels as if he has been living in one. of the most advanced countries of the world. The document is comprised of, Certificate and approval of building construction, professionalism, and laboratories of testing materials, use of occupying, street, roads, building space requirements, construction sites safety security measures, parking requirements, water supply, drainage, solid waste management, and sanitation, fire prevention and fire safety measures, life safety in buildings, light and ventilation, development permit and procedures, rules about violation of land development, preservation of the structure of special architecture and historic interests, different penalties, and rate charges structure It says that building structure should be according to Pakistan building code 2007 so that to observe seismic prevention. It says that a single Street should be 24 feet wide while a two-way street should be 40 feet wide. In addition, every building should have an emergency door, and roof refuge facility. On the other side, while constructing a building a 30 feet height is allowed.It warns that if rules are not followed, the building will be demolished. When we come to the capitol city, there are around 300 to 400 buildings, Shopping malls, Plazas, which have been built by violating many building codes. In 2010, a government official told that there were 134 buildings that were in dangerous conditions. Regrettably, the government has failed to take any action. Moreover, the city has plunged into a mushroom growth of illegal schemes. Where hundreds of schemes are not registered with the Quetta development authority. Apart from this, the systems of street management, solid waste management, the issue of sanitation, and street lights have further exposed the town planning and governing system in the province. Will the government pay heed? Obviously not. As the basic system of democracy and town planning, the local government system has been suffocated time and again. Either the funds are stopped to them or the local government system is suspended in the province. The vested interests of the political elite will never let town planning succeed in the province.
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