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Housing Scheme: Punjab University teachers to get ownership letters soon

Vice Chancellor Punjab University Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran presided over a meeting of Employees Housing Scheme’s Management Committee in his office committee room.

The vice chancellor briefed the committee members about the final approval of map of Town-I by the Lahore Development Authority (LDA).

The meeting decided the early distribution of ownership letters of residential plots to members of Town-I as per decision of the syndicate.

The meeting was also informed that soon after completion of approval of map of Town-II by the LDA, which was in the last stage, work on distribution of ownership letters of plots to the members would be started.

The vice chancellor instructed the officers concerned to make possible efforts for settlement of issues with LDA on urgent basis.

After hearing news, a wave of happiness was witnessed among varsity teachers and employees who appreciated the fruitful efforts of the vice chancellor in this regard and thanked him for resolving their longstanding issues.

The vice chancellor also appreciated the efforts of Raja Munawar saying he had played an important role in resolving various problems of the university.

Detail OF Illegal Housing Schemes Falling In Rawalpindi Development Authority’s (RDA) Jurisdiction
S. NO. Name Of Housing Society Name Of Developer / Management Committee (Complete Address)
1. National Town. Main Muhammad Waseem Project Manager, National
Town DD 654, National Plaza, Shamsabad, Rawalpindi.

2. City Modal Town. Raja Mohammad Azad Khan, 65 Poonch House, Adam Jee
Road, Rawalpindi.
3. Gulshan-e-Iqbal. Raja Shahid, Site Office Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Mouza Mohri
Ghazan, Dhamial Road, Rawalpindi.
4. Khayaban-e-Millat. Sh. Mukhtar Ahmed
K-5, Murree Road, Rawalpindi.
5. OGDC Town Adyala Road. Tasneem Ahmed S/O Niaz Ahmed
OGDC Employees Co-Operative Housing Society, Mouza
Dahgal, Adyala Road, Rawalpindi.
6. Radio Colony. Mian Tariq Din General Secretary Azad Kashmir Radio
Co-Operative Housing Society, 21 Asam Plaza, Murree
Road, Rawalpindi.
7. Gulshan-e-Ali. Sh. Mohammad Ali, Wattan Builders, M-21, Murree Road,
Rawalpindi.
8. Janjua Town. Altaf Hussain Janjua, H. No. 66, Street No. 4, Mohallah
Officers Colony, Rawalpindi.
9. Jinnah Town Khyber Housing
Society.
Ch. Tariq Mehmood Toor S/O Ch. Hanif Ali Toor,
H. No. P/698, Said Pur Road, Mohallah Angat Pura,
Rawalpindi.
10. Samarzar housing Project. Sardar Farooq,
House No. 626, Sector I-10/4, Islamabad.
11. Khayban-e-Quaid. Ghulam Nabi Khan S/O Haji Ghulam Mohammad Khan,
House No. C-169, Mohallah Chishtiabad, Rawalpindi.
12. Hamza Town. Raja Zahid & Raja Mumtaz, Rajco International Property
Consult, Office No. 3, Shahid Market Near Samarzar
Colony, Adiala Road, Rawalpindi.
13. Gulberg Town Adiyala Road. Maqbool Ahmed S/O M. Amin International Housing (Pvt)
Ltd., 1st Floor, Al-Amin Plaza, Mall Road, Rawalpindi.
14. Lawyers Co-Operative housing
Society.
Ch. Nasrullah Khan, President, Lawyers Co-Operative
Housing Society, Lawyers Chamber No. 2, Block No. 17,
District Court, Rawalpindi.
15. Gulrez Housing Scheme. Ch. Rasheed Ahmad, Gulrez Welfare Society, Gulrez
Housing Scheme, Mouza Kotha Kalan, Rawalpindi.
16. Rasool Town. Capt ® Azhar Rasool Qureshi S/O Tariq Rasool,
2nd Floor, Askari Plaza, 266 Kashmir Road, Rawalpindi.
17. Silicon Valley. Mr. Tahir Javed, Chairman Urban Developers (Silicon
Valley) Chartered Town Planner, 90, 1st Floor, Razia
Sharif Plaza, Blue Area, Islamabad.
18. Al-Haram City-II. Ch. Muhammad Akram Manger, Office No. 44, 1st Floor
Mian Plaza, Near Chandni Chowk, Murree Road,
Rawalpindi.
19. Islamabad Telecommunication City
Housing Scheme.
Mr. Muhammad Ikram, 2nd Floor, Ratta Mansion, Fazal-e-
Haq Road, Blue Area, Islamabad.
20. Garden Town Ship/Madina Tus
Salam.
Mr. Mohammad Zafar Iqbal,
H. No. 312, Street-21, Sector I-9/1, Islamabad
Rana Mohammad Azad,
Office No. 7, Gulshan Plaza, Murree Road, Rawalpindi.
21. Airport Employees Co-Operative
Housing Scheme.
President, Airport Employees Co-Operative Housing
Society, Airport Link Road, Behind Gulzar-e-Quaid,
Rawalpindi.
22. Sanghar Town. Mr. Mobeen Sabir & Mr. Shoukat Abbasi, Sanghar Town,
Mouza Gangal, Service Road, Near Mangral Town,
Rawalpindi.
23. Fazal Town Phase-II. Haji Fazal-ur-Rehman, Fazal Town Phase-I, Near Tabish
House, Airport Link Road, Chaklala, Rawalpindi.
24. Palm City. Malik Ghulam Mahboob, Malik Atta & Rao Sami Ullah,
House No. 106, Kiyani Street, Ayub Colony, Khayaban-e-
Tanveer, Near Chaklala Scheme-III, Rawalpindi.
25. Lawyers Town Ship. Mr. Sikander Bhatti, President Lawyer Township Co-
Operative Housing Society Chaklala Ikran Law Associates,
North Star Plaza, Murree Road, Rawalpindi.
26. T & T Colony Morgah. Razaq A. Mirza, President T & T Housing Society, 53 B
Haider Road, Near GPO Saddar, Rawalpindi.
27. Al-Muslim Estate. Ch. Muhammad Aslam, Al-Muslim Estate, Main Markaz
Gulshan-e-Abad, Adayala Road, Rawalpindi.
28. Jabbar Colony. Mr. Jabbar Khan S/O Ameer Khan, H. No. 33-34, Chaklala
Scheme-III, Rawalpindi.
29. Usman Block. Haji Fazal-ur-Rehman, Fazal Town Phase-I, Near Tabish
House, Airport Link Road, Chaklala, Rawalpindi.
30. Jubilee Town. Raja Shahid, Site Office Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Mouza Mohri
Ghazan, Dhamial Road, Rawalpindi.
31. Federation of employees
Cooperative Housing Scheme.
Room No. 10, 1st Floor, Railway Society Plaza 43, Allama
Iqbal Road, Ghari Shahu, Lahore.

LAHORE: The government must freeze the housing sector finance for at least 10 years into single digit to promote the construction industry and to meet the country’s housing demands.

Participants in the Jang Economic Session on the ‘Role of Housing Sector in National Economy’ added the country needs 0.5 million units per annum and only 0.2 million houses were being constructed. The moot was held here on Tuesday.

The participants were Habib Ahmed, MD Habib Rafiq Group, Chairman Punjab Land Development Company (PLDC) Sheikh Allauddin, Engineer Akbar Sheikh Zamin, developer Mian Tahir Javeed, Chairman Urban Developers Irfan Qaiser Sheikh, former Chairman PIAF and Main Fazal Ahmed, President Engineers Study Forum. The session was jointly hosted by Sikindar Hameed Lodhi and Intikhab Tariq.

Habib Ahmed said construction industry ran 40 other industries at parallel, which created real economic activity in the country. He stressed the need to promote vertical housing construction, which was relatively cheaper as compared to traditional housing units. He called for the implementation of Housing Policy 2001 approved by the cabinet. He also suggested introduction of modern technology in housing construction, which was used all over the world, which was also helpful in promoting the construction industry. He said the government developed mortgage industry as well, with at least 10 to 15 years single digit frozen mark-up rate.

Sheikh Allauddin said that there was no urban limits of Lahore. One developer made a housing scheme 60-km away from Lahore with a golf course and was calling it as within Lahore. He said if the government was sincere in giving houses to common man, then it must provide subsidies on constriction material. He said the government also introduced rules of constructing a house on a plot within a specific time period after which fine would be imposed on the plot holders. He said the PLDC has shifted the location of the Aashyana project while new applications would also be invited before balloting while over 19,000 applications were received. He said similar low cost housing projects would also be introduced in Jehlum, Sargodha and Faisalabad after completion of the Lahore project.

Akbar Sheikh said there was no department and database about the housing sector of Pakistan. He said the government collected up to 30 per cent revenue from construction spending and this construction industry was a cash cow for it. He said no developer was bringing any product for Rs 15,000 to 20,000 monthly income group people who could only pay maximum Rs 8,000 monthly for their housing unit. He said low cost housing projects were also not commercially sustainable in the absence of low mark-up rate housing finance in the country.

Mian Tahir Javeed said 80 per cent housing societies were developing without planning and approval of the authorities concerned, which caused problems for the government. He said these societies were developed without basic amenities of sewerage, water, electricity, gas and others due to which government expenses to provide facilities to public increased. He said the approved scheme developers paid for every amenity to the government due to which the cost of the price of land and housing units was unmatchable with unapproved societies. He said India had zero rated the housing sector for four years while in many parts of the western world zero rated financing facilities were available to it. He said construction cost was increased quickly in Pakistan and the government must develop a mechanism to control it for promotion of construction industry.

Irfan Qaiser said that world over, the housing sector was an indicator of growth and also played a vital role in economic growth. He said the construction sector not only creates job in developing and under developed economies but also in developed countries. He said monthly earning of both skill and unskilled labour construction industry could be doubled by providing with 6 to 12 months technical crash courses. He said reducing the anti dumping duties from the construction industry raw material could also promote this sector as locally produced raw material was costlier then the imported one. He said the government should promote vertical housing culture as in Singapore 81 per cent housing need was catered through apartments.

Mian Fazal Ahmed said that the government revisits the national housing policy according to modern needs and implements it as well. He said modernization of housing and construction sector could bring down the poverty and unemployment from country. He suggested Malaysian model.

The governing body of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has approved acquisition of 35 kanals land for a new fruit and vegetable market.

The district co-ordination officer and LDA chairman, Ahad Khan Cheema, chaired the governing body meeting of LDA which was attended by acting LDA director general Hafiz Ihsan Ul Haq, additional director general (Housing) Mansoor Qadir, WASA managing director Dr Javed Iqbal and representatives of the provincial local government, housing, planning and development and finance departments besides administrators of the nine constituent towns of Lahore district.

LDA officials said the decision was taken after the Punjab agriculture department had decided to shift Fruit and Vegetable Market, Kot Lakhpat, Ferozepur Road, Lahore. They added that the Market was established on 100 kanals land as a part of the LDA scheme known as the Model Town Extension Housing Scheme.

The Land for Model Town Extension Housing Scheme was purchased by the LDA from the Model Town Society in 1978.

The Fruit & Vegetable Market has become a source of pollution as well as traffic congestion on the main Ferozepur Road.

The matter has been discussed at different levels of the government, and it has been decided to make arrangement for shifting of fruit and vegetable market.

Lahore Development Authority officials maintained that, after shifting of the market, the land allotted to the shop keepers, market committee, etc, needed to be acquired to eliminate the source of pollution.

Meanwhile, in compliance with the orders of the Supreme Court, the governing body had also granted administrative approval for an amount of Rs.52 million for external electrification of Venus Housing Scheme at Ferozepur Road Lahore in the interest of public.

The amount will be recovered after auctioning 81 plots, mortgaged with Lahore Development Authority by the sponsor of the scheme, as guarantee for development works.