LAHORE, Dec 27: The City District Government will develop new residential schemes with a number of three and five-marla plots for providing residences to the low-income groups.

This was stated by District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood while talking to people at a ceremony held for handing over of the possession of plots at the Army Welfare Trust Housing Scheme Phase-2, Raiwind Road, here on Saturday.

He said four of the schemes, with three and five-marla plots, would be developed near the industrial areas to provide residential facilities to the workers near their places of employment. The CDG would also approach the provincial government to exempt these plots from all kinds of taxes, he added.

He said the Lahore Development Authority had decided to give liberal incentives to the private developers to facilitate the development of a maximum number of residential units, as it could not meet the growing residential requirements of the city district’s population increasing by an average 200,000 people annually.