ISLAMABAD: Ministry’s help sought in CDA dues recovery
By Our Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has requested the interior ministry to get its outstanding dues, amounting to over Rs6 billion, recovered from government departments.
Talking to Dawn on Saturday, the CDA chairman, Mir Laiq Shah, said Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat had been appraised about the financial position of the authority.
The minister was told that the government had to pay over Rs6 billion to the CDA that had been spent on the maintenance of official buildings, payment of utility dues of various departments and mega-development projects initiated on the government’s instruction.
Another CDA official said out of a total amount of Rs6 billion, Rs4 billion was utilized on the maintenance of government buildings and payment of utility dues while Rs2 billion on various development projects.
“The CDA alone cannot recover the outstanding dues from government departments, therefore it has sought the help of the interior ministry for this purpose,” the official said.
The CDA is reportedly facing acute financial crisis and if these outstanding dues are recovered, its condition will improve, he added.
According to a data compiled by the CDA, some 42 main government departments and buildings, including Chief Executive Secretariat, Wapda, PTCL, Kashmir House, Balochistan House, Sindh House, Punjab House, Frontier House, Foreign Office and Pak- Secretariat, were defaulters of over Rs1 billion.
The official said these government buildings had to pay the amount to the CDA under property tax, water tax and other municipal taxes.
He further said the authority had decided to serve notice on these government departments in the near future.
According to the CDA data, Wapda had to pay Rs48.331 million, PTCL, Rs16.241 million; Sui Gas Department, Rs2.363 million; National Bank of Pakistan, Rs3.014 million; Prime Minister House, Rs 1.778 million; Chief Executive Commission, Rs1.506 million; cabinet building, Rs1.912 million; PM Secretariat complex, Rs1.636 million; Punjab House, Rs1.132 million; Sindh House, Rs0.319 million; Balochistan House, Rs0.126 million; Frontier House, Rs0.348 million; Kashmir House, Rs0.059 million; Pak PWD head office G-9, Rs1.909 million; Pak Secretariat police station, Rs0.079 million; Export Advisory Cell, Rs0.082 million; State Bank of Pakistan, Rs0.028 million; National Library Project, Rs0.111 million; T&T exchange F-5 sector, Rs0.051 million; communication building block B Pak secretariat, Rs0.246 million; Broadcasting House, Rs0.106 million; PAEC K Block, Rs0.011 million; Ghazi Ilumuddin Hostel, Rs0.451 million; female officer hostel, Rs0.476 million; NARC main complex, Rs0.459 million; Pakistan Engineering Council, Rs0.045 million; Wapda grid station-5, Rs0.790 million; Wapda grid station Bhara Kahu, Rs0.391 million; Officer Rest House Foreign Office, Rs0.025 million; 108-family suit Pak PWD, Rs1.258 million; AJK Council Secretariat, Rs0.033 million; Foreign training academy F-5, Rs0.054 million; 21-family suits Pak PWD, Rs0.126 million; 72-family suits PWD, Rs0.486 million; Pak Secretariat Phase I-II, Rs1.238 million; federal model colleges Islamabad, Rs0.606 million; federal model schools, Rs0.131 million; National Institute of Technical Education, Rs0.024 million; Poly Technical Institute for Girls H-8, Rs0.050 million and Chumri type hostel G-8, Rs0.468 million.
