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Federal Minister for Housing and Works Rahmatullah Kakar has said that over 2000 flats would be constructed for the shelterless people of federal capital.
Talking to APP, he said this is the second mega project after I-16 Sector for which the Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA) has acquired 15 acres land from the Capital Development Authority (CDA).
He said that it was national obligation upon the construction engineers and experts to acquaint themselves with the emerging cost effective technologies to be utilised in the Prime Minister’s Housing Projects in the country.
Kakar said the Balochistan government was issuing an NOC in next few days for the land acquired by the PHA and it would provide housing facilities to the needy, government employees and the general public.
The minister said that 2000 flats were being constructed in I-16 Sector Islamabad on 16 acres of land acquired from the CDA which would double the government’s efforts in achieving the goal for shelter to all.
The minister urged the PHA and FGEHF to intensify their efforts for launching more housing projects with a view to speedy accomplishment of housing for all programme. He said that construction of one million housing units would not only provide housing facility for the shelterless, needy, government employees and the general public but also generate socio-economic uplift activities in the country.

Sibghatullah Virk
Federal Government Employee Housing Foundation collected billions of rupees from government employees in the name of a housing scheme in Bahara Kahoo and the collected capital remained in the Foundation’s account but applicants find no way to get reward of their heavy payments made to the FGEHF a year before.

Federal Government Employee Housing Scheme finds no place even after one year of its inception and project gets no exposure to the public while poor applicants very rightly question the scope of their payments made to the Foundation.

The housing scheme in the vicinity of the federal capital near Barra Kehoo was started in August 2009 for federal government’s employees and had been charged Rs 50,000 each. Billions of rupees were collected but remained with the Foundation while the matter has been lying pending with different institutions simultaneously.

National Assembly’s Standing Committee for Housing and Works claims that the land had been acquired at desired rates whereas the federal minister claims that the procedure had been transparent and the land had been acquired at market rates.

The story does not finish here as it moves ahead with a new twist since Capital Development Authority did not issue no-objection certificate to the Foundation to move forward. The process had been started in hurry without fulfilling basic formalities but applicants had been called and money received from them as a result of which the poor employees seem to be very disappointed. The project is one of the delayed projects while a few were launched 18 years ago. For example, Phase-II Islamabad (Sectors D-12, E-12, I-8 and G-11) was launched in 1992, Phase-III Islamabad (Sector G-13 & Sub Sector G-14/4) in 1996, Phase-IV Islamabad (Sub-Sectors G-14/1,2,3 & G-15/3,4) on 16th December 2003 and Phase-V Islamabad (Housing Scheme for Low Paid FG Employees in Sub-sectors G-11/3, 4) was launched in April 2005.

Similar is the case with the projects in other cities as FGE Housing Scheme at Regi Lalma Peshawer was launched in 1995 and Phase-I Karachi in 1992 whereas Phase-II Karachi was launched in 1999. “Who will be responsible for this delay as our money is losing worth with every hour passing and we don’t know about the future of our payments since there is no ray of hope in the near future,” said one of the applicants. If foundation gets NOC from CDA and allotment starts who would be able to pay heavy development charges which have been increasing day by day and how a government worker, who gets 2 or 3 millions as his life asset in the form of pension at the time of his or her retirement will manage to pay more than his complete assets, he added.

It is worth mentioning that the project finds no space on the Foundation’s web portal and nothing is disseminated by the officials for the applicants regarding the project. This makes the condition more troublesome as poor government employees find no news about his precious amount lying with the Foundation’s account. A source told this correspondent that the sites will be allotted on first-come-first-served basis which again will curtail merit since a junior guy can get his place and a senior old employee could lose the very chance of finding a small piece to live on in the feeble part of his life.

The allottees of Sector G-14 have heaved a sigh of relief following the announcement of the award for built-up property in Sector G-15/3, which has paved the way for the development of Sector G-14 here on Friday.

These allottees have thanked Cabinet Division Secretary Abdul Rauf Chaudhry, Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation director general and Islamabad chief commissioner.

The allottees have demanded of the deputy commissioner Islamabad to pay the owners of houses in Sector G-15/3 and take the possession of the land as soon as possible. They demanded of concerned authority to complete the work acquiring of land, payment of built-up property and engineering survey in Sector G-14 and announce the development award within two months.

The allottees were of the view that Sector G-14 was opened in 2004, but after the lapse of six years they were waiting for the launch of development work, as majority of allottees got retired from their services and have been forced to live in rented houses.

It is worth mentioning here that Land Acquisition Collector (Islamabad) Khalid Yamin Satti on Thursday announced the award for the built-up property in Sector G-15/3. The award amounts to Rs368.5 million. The award was announced in the light of estimates, assessments and rates of built-up property received from the Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF), Islamabad.

The base of the award was a detailed survey of built-up property in Sub-Sector G-15/3 Islamabad, which was conducted by the Pakistan Public Works Department (Pak-PWD) and FGEHF in the beginning of the year. The News

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Minister for Housing and Works Rehmatullah Kakar has expressed the confidence that the dream of low income group to have own homes would soon come true as the government has initiated work on various long and short term housing projects.

Talking to media, he said soon after taking over the charge the government announced to construct one million houses.

Following a short-term strategy, the government has constructed 10,300 houses, which is double of the set target of 5,000 houses, he said. Construction of houses has been started in sectors G-10, G-11 and I-11 in Islamabad. Construction of housing units is underway in Karachi in Gulshan-e-Memar, scheme 33 and Mono Got areas, Hayatabad in Peshawar, in the Federal colony in Lahore and along the Chaman highway area in Quetta.

About 3000 kanals of land in Bara Kahu has been purchased, where flats and plots would be built and allotted to government employees, general public and journalists, Kakar said.

The allotment would be on `no profit and no loss basis’. About two percent quota for journalists and non-journalists has been allocated in each of the federal schemes. An agreement to construct about 5250 houses and flats in Karachi would be signed with private sector within next few days, the minister said.

He said that investors are showing interest in Pakistan’s housing sector, adding that two foreign companies want to build about 13500 houses in Karachi alone.

He added that the government is according high priority to the development of housing sector.

Development of housing sector would also give boost to 47 other industries linked with it.

The Prime Minister’s Housing project launched last year to provide houses to low income group would boost socio-economic activities in the country”, he added He said that under the Prime Minister’s Housing for All Programme, one million housing units would be constructed throughout the country including AJK and Northern Areas for the needy, poor, government servants and general public on affordable cost.

Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) has registered more than 18,000 employees under the government’s scheme to provide houses to government servants.

The Minister said that Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA) has been activated and given the task to accomplish the housing projects.

ISLAMABAD: Housing and Works Minister Rehmatullah Kakar on Wednesday said work on Bhara Kahu housing project, being executed under Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF), would be initiated soon.

“The ministry has made all arrangements to launch the first phase of Bhara Kahu housing project,” he said.

He said about 3,000 kanals of land in Bhara Kahu had been purchased where 15,000 flats/plots would be allotted to the government employees, general public and journalists.

Kakar said 5,000 units, out of 15,000, would be allotted to registered applicants, adding that so far around 18,000 government employees had got themselves registered with FGEHF.

He said allotment would be made on ‘no profit, no loss basis’. About two percent quota each has been allocated for journalists and non-journalists in all federal government schemes across the country.

Kakar said the present government, from day one, started short- and long-term projects to overcome housing shortage. Soon after taking the charge, the government announced to construct one million houses across the country under Prime Minister’s Housing for All Programme, he said.

He said around eight million more housing units were needed in the country to meet shortage of houses and 30,000 to 500,000 houses were being constructed on annual basis.

He said 100,000 to 200,000 houses were being constructed in private sector while the rest were being built by the government.

He said construction of houses had started in Sectors G-10, G-11 and I-11 in Islamabad and was also underway in Gulshan-e-Maymar Scheme 23 in Karachi, Hayatabad in in Peshawar, Federal Colony in Lahore and along Chaman Highway in Quetta.

He said construction of houses in Sector G-13 would start within a month. app