ISLAMABAD: After its land directorate was criticised for corruption, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Monday decided to improve the system for dealing with allotting plots to those who are entitled an alternative plot in place of the one CDA acquired from them.

Meeting under the supervision of CDA Chairman Maroof Azal, CDA’s board decided that the people who were to be allotted plots in a ‘dead’ moza, i.e. those mozas where further allotment is banned, will be given alternative plots in I-11. It was also decided that the Land and Estate Directorate will be divided into two parts, looked after by two directors in order for it to function smoothly.

The board also approved a proposal for allotting alternative plots via a five-member committee instead of by a single deputy director land.

The board also constituted a reforms committee which will be supervised by Member Planning and Design Waseem Ahmed Khan and which will work out a reforms package for the Land and Estate Directorate.

The said directorate made the headlines over the past two years regarding reports of corruption worth millions of rupees.

Speaking to Dawn, one of the board members said the board also approved the formation of a CDA force, which will consist of 200 officials and two force stations for guarding CDA land. The force will establish 10 pickets at various points in the federal capital in order to keep an eye on CDA land and take action against encroachments on the said land.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2016