ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on National Food Security Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah on Wednesday presented a report in
the house on the proposed conversion of 1,400 acres of National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) by the CDA into residential and commercial plots.
Briefing the house about the findings of his committee, Mr Shah of the PML-F said that the committee had recommended that since the CDA had not taken any action against any of the 43 such violators in the capital city, it had no right to cancel the lease of the NARC.
Later, talking to Dawn, Mr Shah said the members of the committee had been informed by the CDA officials that the civic agency had detected 43 cases of lease agreement violations, but it had taken no action against them except for imposing a fine.
Therefore, he said, the CDA had no right to cancel the lease of NARC land on which laboratories and other infrastructure for research work had been set up.
Mr Shah said the NARC officials had told the committee that the CDA remained involved in all the construction activities at the site and at no point it raised any objection or issue a show cause notice for alleged violation of the lease agreement.
Published in Dawn, October 8th, 2015
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