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ISLAMABAD (February 08, 2011) : The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to launch a massive operation to evacuate its land and has demanded support from Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration and Islamabad Police in order to make this operation a success.

The decision to launch operation was taken in a meeting held on Monday with Chairman CDA, Imtiaz Inayat Elahi in the chair while Chief Commissioner Islamabad, Tariq Pirzada, senior officers of ICT Administration, Islamabad Police and other concerned departments also participated.

A Co-ordination Committee consisting of the representatives of CDA, ICT Administration and Islamabad Police was constituted to monitor the development regarding evacuation and recovery of land from illegal occupation. During the meeting Chairman CDA, Imtiaz Inayat Elahi apprised the participants that the land was acquired in 1960s. With the passage of time people started to encroach and built property on CDA land, he added.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed CDA to get the land vacated and start development work, the CDA chief said, adding that after apex court orders the CDA evacuated 300 kanals of land in Malpur area in addition to vast stretches of land in other areas of the federal Capital.

Elahi also informed the meeting that the operation was being conducted on regular basis in this regard, especially, clearing the right of way along Kashmir Highway. He said that a comprehensive strategy in this regard has been prepared to get the remaining land vacated.

He said that the media would be taken on board. He said that public notice has been published in the national media warning the encroachers to vacate the CDA land within 7 days. He said that the Supreme Court of Pakistan was being apprised on regular basis in this regard.

He said that CDA was reinforcing its Enforcement Directorate to execute the operation. He said that a system of awards was being formulated to acknowledge the efforts of the officers and officials participating in the operation. Chief Commissioner Islamabad, Tariq Pirzada assured the full support of ICT administration to CDA for evacuation of the land illegally occupied by people.

A special team would monitor the areas to facilitate the staff, Pirzada said, adding that the support of the locals should also be sought in addition to taking the media on board on the issue. He said that all out efforts would be made to get the land vacated. The representative of Islamabad Police also assured full co-operation in the operation saying that police would be fully participating in the operation as and when required.

PC for establishing land privatisation commission: releasing state-owned land for commercial purposes
ISLAMABAD (February 08, 2011) : The Planning Commission (PC) has proposed a land privatisation commission to release all the unproductive land owned by the state for commercial purposes. In its paper titled ‘new growth framework, it proposed that the government ownership of city-centre land needed to be reduced to strengthen the decentralisation to allow city planners adequate control over their land and resources.

The government ownership is retarding growth, therefore, land banks at provincial level be set up to release idle state-owned land in favour of dense mixed use places to encourage public-private partnerships. The current state of cities in Pakistan is abysmal and urban population is escalating at a rapid rate of 3 percent with the existing urban population of 60 million (36% of the total population).

The city dwellers do not have much say in the running of the city. But a great deal of involvement by the government bodies is apparent in taking managerial and administrative decisions. The prevalent confusion regarding how modern cities should be governed is growing acute. The lack of affordable space and poor commercial laws has hindered the growth of cities.

There is need that all legislative bodies must review rent laws and remove clauses which unjustifiably favour tenants and restrict the functioning of the rental market, zoning laws should be improved and made transparent and modernise land registration system by electronically recording all transfers of land title in a centralised data base.

Housing information system should be established to provide data on housing demand and supply from the district level to the national level. It should also include Housing Price Index and Housing Access Index with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Statistics. A regulatory body must also be established for property dealers to register themselves officially. Relax zoning and building regulations to enable dense development of housing and vertical expansion.

There is a need to reduce cost of construction by encouraging foreign developers to compete in the Pakistani market and facilitate research and development in low cost and energy efficient construction techniques. Increase access to housing finance through sound foreclosure laws and computerised credit information. Curtail growth of Katchi Abadis by using market based solutions to produce low income housing. The above stated issues need immediate reform efforts so that appropriate economic geography can help Pakistan grow better, the paper added.

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.

ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Sunday demolished houses and walls in Saidpur Village built on encroached land in a campaign against encroachers for the vacation of the land in capital.

According to sources, during operation in Saidpur Model village houses and walls build on the CDA land were demolished.

In second phase encroachments in the western areas of the capital will be demolished.

CDA Director General Planning told Daily Times that it had been decided to vacate all the encroached land in the capital.

LAHORE (December 30, 2010) : The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has planned to establish a Central Business District (CBD) in the city comprising Jail Road, Main Boulevard, M. M. Alam Road, segment of Hali Road and Sharae Noor Jehan, Gulberg for creating more investment, business and employment opportunities in the city.

Work on the first phase has already been started in the form of construction of first ‘Park and Ride’ Plaza at the Liberty Market, disclosed a LDA’s spokesman here on Wednesday. The newly constructed Park and Ride Plaza has become operational and hundreds of people including shoppers and visitors are daily benefiting from this safe and secure parking facility of international standard.

Built at a cost of Rs 677 million, this 11 floors structure has been constructed on a 3.17 kanal piece of land adjacent to UCH, within a period of one and a half year with a capacity of providing parking facility to 308 cars per day. As many as 80 shops have also been built in the basement, ground and first floors of this plaza along with two restaurants on the first floor as well as the roof top of the structure.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) to construct 10 more ‘Park and Ride’ plazas in the city within six months. Work on two such plazas each at New Anarkali and Barkat Market will be started within 20 days.

The LDA has a clear comprehension of the challenges it is facing and is committed to substitute policies and practices, which are damaging to the urban spatial, economic and fabric structure of the city with the ones which are modern, business-friendly and in line with international best practices of urban design and city planning. This process involves extensive urban studies for which a clear programme has been chalked out.

Residents of the Defence Housing Authority have prepared a report against the DHA administration for demanding hefty “refurbishment charges” from property owners.

A joint report compiled by the Association of Defence Residents (ADR) and the Defence Society Residents’ Association (DSRA) said the DHA had supposedly imposed the “refurbishment charges” to recover Rs2.25 billion it spent on storm drains.

The DSRA estimates that the DHA administration may collect Rs10-12 billions under the head of refurbishment charges. It is far greater an amount than what the DHA claims it spent on storm water drains, the report says.

According to the residents, they cannot transfer their property or get a completion certificate unless they pay the refurbishment charges.

The report says that the DHA residents had termed the refurbishment charges illegal and unethical when it was imposed. “Former DHA administrator Brig Kamran Kazi, who had started work on the storm water drainage system, used to say that he was doing it as he felt it was the duty of the DHA as a developer of the area to have built this a long time ago. He never even mentioned that the residents will be sent a bill for the DHA’s negligence,” the report adds.

The residents say although all development work in developed phases of the DHA has been completed, the Authority continues to expand its presence and commercial activities.

The DHA had vowed in a court of law that it will not receive any financial support from any governmental or non-governmental organisation, except for what it has collected or collects from the DHA residents, the report says. “As per the DHA’s 2009 financial statement, the DHA spent more than one billion rupees under the head of salaries, wages and benefits.”