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| March 09, 2007 | Friday | Safar 19, 1428 |
Investment in Sector E-11 at stake
ISLAMABAD, March 8: The investment of 4,000 plot-holders in six cooperative housing societies in sector E-11 is at stake as the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is being pressurised to reverse its decision on granting the ownership rights, a source in the authority told Dawn on Thursday.
The source said a senior official in the President House was pressurising the authority to reverse the plan under which each housing scheme was provided land in the sector. In all 4,000 plots were given away on ownership rights.
The source said the authority had given proprietary rights to the housing schemes in the light of a decision of the Federal Ombudsman and the CDA Board.
“A senior official of the presidency is using his influence and pressurising all the authorities concerned to facilitate a landholder, Chaudhry Mohammad Riaz, who earlier owned 69 kanals of land that was consolidated into the land given to housing schemes in E-11 and he was given an alternative piece of land in the same sector,” the source said.
But, the source said, a letter had been issued from the President House a few months back directing the CDA to reverse the status of Mr Riaz’s land.
However, the CDA had replied to the President House that the CDA’s decision to grant proprietary rights to housing schemes had been approved by the competent authority.
It informed the President House that the matter regarding the adjustment of land of Ch Riaz would again be put up in the CDA Board to decide the matter after observing all legal and codal formalities.
The source said if the status of 69 kanals of land is reversed it would reverse the entire consolidation of land sold by six housing schemes and where houses have been built by the plot owners.
When contacted, a senior official of the CDA who did not want to be named said the consolidation of land had been done to protect the rights of innocent plot buyers in the housing schemes. “Had this not been done, over 4,000 plot holders would have had no legal right over their own houses,” he said.
He said any move to reverse the consolidation plan would sabotage the whole efforts of the CDA and future of the housing schemes as well as their plot owners. “If the status of any piece of land is reserved in E-11, the whole proprietary rights plan would dismantle,” he feared.
The source said under new plan (consolidation plan) the owner of 69 kanals of private land had been given a better piece of land at a different place in the same sector, but he was bent upon getting the land on the previous site which had been handed over to a housing scheme being developed by National Police Foundation (NPF).
Earlier the land of six housing schemes was scattered and not in consolidated form and therefore their managements could not transfer the land in the name of their members (plot owners).
The CDA planning wing had worked very hard and formed a new site plan of sector E-11 and gave compact and consolidated pieces of land to the housing schemes. The new plan had provided the legal status of land to the plot owners.
The housing schemes which have been given propriety rights of their purchased land are: National Police Foundation (NPF), Multi-Professional Cooperative Housing Society (MPCHS), Federation of Employees Cooperative Housing Society (FECHS), Services Cooperative Housing Society (SCHS), Pakistan Medical Cooperative Housing Society (PMCHS) and Ahbab Multi Purpose Cooperative Society (AMPCS).
The source said the owners of plots in these schemes had started transfer of their plots under the new site plan of the sector and has become impossible to reverse the plan.
The land of E-11 was initially given to the villagers of Golra in compensation of their land acquired by the CDA in Golra. Most of the villagers had further sold the land to six housing schemes being developed in E-11.
However, despite purchasing the land from the villagers, the managements of the housing schemes had no legal right on it before consolidation.
The CDA has already taken over the administrative charge of entire E-11 sector and now it would provide all municipal facilities to the areas.
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