KARACHI, June 3: The City Nazim, Naimatullah Khan, has directed the land department of the City District Government Karachi to speed up the pace of restoration of frozen residential plots.

These plots were allotted between 1990 and 1996 under the chief minister's quota on rates lesser than the market value of these plots in North Karachi, Surjani Town, Gulistan-i-Jauhar and other residential schemes in Karachi. The delay in the restoration of the plots has been causing anxiety and frustration among allottees.

The Sindh government and the CDGK formed a committee some time back to look into the matter and to recommend restoration of these plots on market rates. The committee, after a thorough probe, restored around 685 plots with a little difference on market rates.

Details of these plots with a difference of rates and payment outstanding against these plots would be released on the website of the CDGK soon. According to a document of the CDGK, these plots in different housing schemes and townships of the defunct KDA were allotted lower than the market value in violation of law.

"In pursuance of section-4 (2) of the Sindh Government Land (Cancellation of Allotments, Conversions and Exchanges) Ordinance 2000, the loss caused to public exchequer has been worked out by the committee appointed under Section 4 (1) of the said ordinance," it mentions.

It says these plots are offered on payment of differential amount by the respective allottees, whose cases have been approved for regularization under a decision of the provincial cabinet. - PPI