FAISALABAD: The Faisalabad Development Authority (FDA) has issued notices to three police officers and two Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) officials to vacate their residences in two weeks.

The FDA residences situated near the Hockey Stadium have been occupied by the chief traffic officer (CTO), assistant superintendents of police of People’s Colony and Sargodha Road and two Wasa officials for several years.

The notices were issued on the direction of FDA Governing Body Chairman Sheikh Ijaz Ahmed, a PML-N MPA.

The FDA governing body decided in its Jan 20 meeting to retrieve and demolish the properties to construct commercial plazas there.

Three sites have been approved for plazas -- Madina Town, Gulistan Colony and the FDA main office building.

The FDA wrote to regional and city police officers to get the residences vacated from ASPs and the CTO.

Work on the Madina Town site will begin first for its ideal location for commercial activities.

At the site, four residences are being occupied by the FDA officers, two by Wasa officers and two are under the use of the CTO and two ASPs.

The FDA is going to start construction at the site shortly, the letter reads.

The FDA also wrote one such letter to the Wasa managing director to direct his subordinate officers to vacate the residences right away.

FDA Additional Director General Yaqoob Khan told Dawn 15 days had been given to police and Wasa officials to vacate the residences.

He said the officers of both departments had been occupying such residences illegally for a couple of years, however, now the FDA governing body had taken notice of the issue.

Published in Dawn, January 30th, 2015

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