ISLAMABAD, May 14: The city managers will face Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday for not making effective policy for recovery of millions of rupees dues from public.

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) bosses will attend the PAC meeting with more than 300 objection cases mostly related to planning (building control section) and estate.

They will face pending audit objections for the period from 2004 to 2008.

“Most of the audit objections were justified and demand recovery of outstanding dues,” the CDA Chairman Farkhand Iqbal told Dawn.

He said the CDA team on Monday discussed strategy for facing the PAC. “I personally believe that our building control section was responsible for lack of recoveries despite the fact that the CDA is suffering from acute shortage of funds,” the chairman said.

“If we issue completion certificate to all owners of high rise apartment buildings or shops and offices’ owners in commercial plazas they will come under tax net of the CDA and their property will be registered in their own name,” another official of the CDA said.

He said as completion certificates were not issued the entire building remained in the name of one owner/builder and thus hundreds of inhabitants of the same building remained outside the municipal tax net and did not pay transfer fee to the CDA when they sold their properties.

“We have observed that apartment buildings in sector G-11, F-11 and F-10 sectors were built more than 15 years ago but they were not issued completion certificates,” the CDA chief said.

He said in the absence of completion certificate no one can sold his property in Islamabad but the flat owners in that buildings sold their apartments many a time only on Rs5 stamp papers illegally, thus no revenue came to the authority.

In the last meeting of the PAC in 2011 the CDA was directed to fix the responsibility within a month but nothing was done in this regard.