HYDERABAD, Jan 28: The District Co-ordination Officer of Hyderabad has warned the builders to pay government dues in shortest possible time.

He said that if the builders failed to do so their plots, available at the sites, would be confiscated and auctioned.

DCO Mir Hussain Ali issued the directive while speaking at a meeting on private housing schemes here on Tuesday.

He also directed the builders to keep their housing schemes ready for handing over to the municipal administration so that provision of civic facilities could be ensured.

He asked HDA authorirties to submit a report on housing schemes in a week, particularly about those projects, whose builders had left without paying for external and internal development facilities and had misused amenity plots.

He said that builders of the housing schemes of Qasimabad were mostly reported as defaulters.