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| June 23, 2003 | Monday | Rabi-us-Sani 22,1424 |
Six housing societies in E-11 told to stop work: Violation of rules
ISLAMABAD, June 22: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has served notices on six housing societies in zone-II (E-11) for initiating development work without meeting the authority’s requirements, a source in the CDA said.
The owners of the housing societies have been asked to stop work, otherwise stern action could be taken against them.
The source said the proprietors of the housing societies had collected millions of rupees from the people, promising them plots in their respective housing societies.
Hundreds of members of the housing societies have been demanding possession of land and development of housing units for the last over 12 years.
The housing scheme which are being established in E-11 (zone- II) are: the National Police Foundation Housing Society, the Multi-Professionals Cooperative Housing Society, Multi-Ahbab Cooperative Housing Society, Services Cooperative Housing Society, Federation of Employees Cooperative Housing Society and the Pakistan Medical Cooperative Housing Society.
However, two of the housing societies — Army Welfare Trust Housing Society and Twin Cities Housing Societies — have met the CDA’s requirements to some extent and started development work, the official added.
The societies had reportedly been launched in 1991 and also applied for the no-objection certificates (NOCs).
These societies had reportedly started development work without obtaining NOCs from the CDA, which is mandatory prior to the launch of any housing society.
According to the CDA laws, a housing society has to pledge 30 per cent of its total number of plots to the authority to ensure completion of the development work according to the layout plan, an official of the CDA said.
Earlier, the land on which these housing societies are being set up did not fall in the zone-II area, but the CDA later agreed to deal with the societies according to the rules which are applied in the area.
According to the rules for the zone-II, housing societies should have at least 1,600 kanals of land for residential and commercial plots, otherwise they would not be entitled to get an NOC.
However, none of the six housing schemes have met the criterion. For example, the total area of the National Police Foundation Housing Scheme was 900 kanals and one of the housing society has only 50 kanals of land.
These societies are being established on the land which was earlier donated to the Golra Shrine. The CDA had exempted the land from the master plan of Islamabad and allocated it for cultivation purpose so that the proceeds from the selling of crops could be utilized in meeting the expenses of the shrine, the official said.
As most of these societies did not meet the criterion of 1600 kanals of land, they decided to make a joint plan and applied for the NOC. The total land of all these housing societies is stated to be 3,500 kanals.
Another official of the CDA said the layout plan of some of the housing societies was not to the mark and the CDA was reluctant to issue them the NoC.
On the other hand, the owners of some housing societies said that because of illogical policies of the CDA they had lost their members’ confidence.
They said their members had not been regularly paying the instalments for the plots as a result of which the societies had been facing problems in acquiring more land to meet the CDA’s criterion.
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