FAISALABAD: The Faisalabad Development Authority (FDA) has stepped up its efforts against the mushroom growth of illegal private housing colonies.

It detected at least 295 illegal colonies in Faisalabad whose developers were carrying on with this billion-rupee business with impunity.

Prior to initiating any sale, advertisement or development activities, the developers are legally bound to seek approval from the FDA. However, the developers did not bother following legal formalities and were advertising and selling plots for a couple of years without approval.

The colonies declared illegal were Ahmad Garden in Chak 204/RB and 208/RB, Canal Road; Al Rehmat/Health City, Chak 226/RB; Izafi Abadi, Mohallah Tariqabad near Boharwali Abadi, Chak 214/RB; two Izafi Abadies in Chak 208/RB; Basit Developers Suleman Colony, Madina Town; Best Homes on Satyana Road; Bismillah Garden in Chak 209/RB; Bismillah Town in Chak 214/RB; Emaan Villas-I, II and III Chak 214/RB, Dhudhiwala; Gulshan-i-Subhan, Chak 209/RB on Jaranwala Road; Gulshan-i-Usman, Chak 200/RB; Haq Bahoo Town, Chak 229/RB, Makuana By-Pass; Hassan Villas Extension, Chak 208/RB; lqbal Garden, Chak 206/RB, Khurianwala Bypass Road; Jelani Park, Chak 215/RB, Jaranwala Road; Chak 214-RB; Nasheman Housing Scheme, Chak 215/ RB, Jaranwala Road; Private Housing Scheme, Chak 204/RB; Rasheed Garden, Chak 208/RB; Chak 229/RB; University Town/Yousaf Town, Chak 239/RB, Satyana Road; Ravi Garden, Chak 226/RB; Ittefaq Town, Chak 194/RB; Model Town, Chak 266/RB, Khurrianwala; Hamza Garden, Chak 215/RB; Gulshan-i-Aziz, Chak 208/RB; Ar-Raheem Garden Chak 229/RB; Model Block Chak 213/RB; Aqsa Town, Chak 119/JB; Azafi Abadi Kamal Pur; Fateh Town, Chak 119/JB; Ghafoor Town Chak 7/JB; Green Town (Kiran Block), Chak 121/JB; Green/Al Kareem Villas Chak 121/JB; Gulshan-i-Ali Chak 5/JB, Kamalpur; Gulshan-i-Bilal, Chak 5/JB; Gulshan-i-Makkah, Chak 7/JB; Hafeez Town, Chak 119/JB; Ideal Block, Chak 7/JB; Ideal Town, Chak 120/JB; lqbal Town, Chak 119/JB; Ismaeel Homes, Chak 121/JB; Khayaban Garden Chak 121; Lasani Park Chak 7/JB, Daewoo Road; Lasani Town, Chak 120/JB Sargodha Road; Maryam Villas, Chak 120/ JB; Motorway Valley and its extension, Chak 5/JB; New Samana Town Chak 119/JB; Chak 119/JB; Chak 119/JB, Samana; Chak 119/JB, Samana; Wasim Town, Chak 120/JB; Welcome City Chak 5/JB; Palm Vista City Chak 121/JB; Zeenat Town VIP Block Chak 120/JB; Waseem Town Chak 7/JB; Izafi Abadi 6/JB; Ibrahim Town VIP Block Chak 121/JB; Hammad Homes Chak 120/JB; Yousaf Town Chak 7/JB; Satian Izafi Abadi Chak 39/GB; Abbas Town (Gulshan-i-Haider), Chak 224/RB; Abdullah Block Chak 225/RB; Ghaffari Town, Malkhanwala; Ahmad Town, Chak 223/RB; Ahsan Garden, Chak 225/RB; Akram Garden Chak 225/RB; Al Madina City, Chak 225/RB; Ali Block Chak 224/RB; Al-Khair Town, Chak 225/RB; Azafi Abadi Ahmed Nagar Chak 225/RB; Azafi Abadi Naimat Town, Chak 223/RB; Azafi Abadi, Stop 5, Chak 224/RB; City Home Chak 235/RB; Danial City, Chak 225/RB; Fareed Town Chak 225/RB; Fatima Garden Chak 236/RB; Chak 236/RB; Fatima Garden Phase-II, Chak 225/RB; Fazan Block, Chak 225/RB; Green Town, Chak 223/RB; Green Valley, Chak 420/GB; Gulberg City, Chak 139/GB Samundary Road; Gulshan Ali, Chak 225/RB; Gulshan Ali, Chak 238/RB, Satyana Road; Gulshan Arfat, Chak 225/RB, Malkhan Wala; Gulshan-i-Rehman, Chak 420/GB, Habib Villas, Chak 225/RB; Haq Bahoo Colony, Hamza Block, Chak 228/RB; Haq Bahoo Town, Phase-V, Chak 238/RB, Satyana Road; Haq Bahoo Town, Chak 225/RB, Satyana Road; Hassan Villas Chak 225/RB; Hayat Town, Chak 225/RB, Main Ahmed Naghar Road; Ibrahim Block, Chak 225/RB, Malkhanwala Road; Inam Villas Phase-I, Chak 223/RB; Jamalpur City Chak 455/GB; Kabeer Town, Chak 225/RB; Kalar Colony, Chak 223/RB, Samundari Road; Karam Daad Block, Chak 225/RB; Madina Garden, Chak 225/RB, Satyana Road; Madina Valley Chak 225/RB; Makkah City Phase-I, II and III, Chak 225/RB, Satyana Road; Muhammad Nagar Izafi Abadi, Chak 225/RB; Muhammad Naghar Izafi Abadi, Kartarywala, Chak 223/RB; Muzamil Garden, Chak 224/RB; Muzdalifa Garden, Chak 225/RB; New Nayamat Town/Abadi Tufail Bhatta, Chak 225/RB; Qayyum Garden, Chak 225/RB, Malkhanwala; Ahsan Park, Chak 117/JB; Akbar Town, Chak 117/JB, Dhanola Dry Port Road; Al-Basit Block, Chak 196/RB, Ghona Road, Nisar Chowk; Gulshan Madina, Chak 196/RB; Hamza Town, Chak 203/RB, Jhumra Road; Hassan Garden, Chak 202/RB, Dry Port Road; JM Valley Chak 196/RB Ghona Road; Kiran Villas, Chak 202/ RB, Millat Road; Kirn Valley Chak 196/RB, Millat Road; Liaqat Town, Chak 117/JB, Dry Port Road; Madni Garden, Chak 202/RB, Ghona Road; Rafique Garden, Chak 117/JB, Millat Road; Rehman Garden/Rehman Town, Chak 117/JB, Dhanola; Rehman Town 1 and 2, Chak 202/RB, Jhumra Road; Chak 207/RB; Chak 117/JB; Chak 117/JB; Umair Town, Chak 117/JB; Umer Block, Chak 117/JB; Yousaf Town Ayesha Block, Chak 121/JB; Zayan Market/Zayan Town, Chak 115/JB; Sandal City, Chak 121/JB; Ideal Town Chak 115/JB; Millat Garden Chak 115/JB; three private colony portions Chak 117/JB; Abadi AlBarkat Block, Chak 233/RB; Abdullah Garden VIP Block, Chak 222/RB; Ahmed Villas Chak 75/JB; Soul Pensara, Jhang Road; Al Karam Villas, Chak 245/RB; Al Makkah Garden, Chak 245/RB, Abbaspur; Al-Noor Villas, Chak 232/RB; Al-Nadi Garden, Chak 74/JB, Jhang Road; Allied Garden, Chak 245/RB, Jhang Road; Allied Housing-II, Chak 296/RB; Aqsa Town, Chak 79/JB, Pensara Dijkot Road; Babul Islam, Chak 73/JB, Jhang Road; Danial Town, Chak 232/RB, Rasalywala Road; Dil Khush Garden, Chak 220 Rehmania Road; Dream Land Villas, Chak 241/RB, Jhang Road; Gulberg Green, Chak 222/RB, College Road, Sheikhanwala; Gulfishan Garden, Chak 67/JB, Jhang Road; Gulshan-e-Fatima, Chak 67/JB, Jhang Road; Gulshan-e-Haram Extension, Chak 222/RB, Samundari Road; Habib Town-II Chak 253/RB; Habib Town-I Chak 257/RB; lnaam Villas Phase-I, Chak 233/RB; Kareem Garden, Chak 67/JB, Jhang Road; Khadim Colony, Chak 232/RB; Madina Villas, Chak 245/RB, Abbaspur; Miani Garden Chak 247/RB; Noor Muhammad Town, Chak 233/RB, Hari Singhwala; Paradise Garden, Chak 67/JB; Qadir Town, Chak 67/JB, Sadhaar; Rasheed Colony, Chak 241/RB, Jhang Road; Rehman City, Chak 67/JB; Rehmat Town, Chak 241/RB, Jhang Road; Sangham Garden, Chak 73/JB; Sangum Town, Chak 67/JB, Sadhaar; Siddiqui Town, Chak 67/JB and 68/JB, Jhang Road; Sidhar Village, Chak 67/JB, Sidhar; Sidhar Villas, Chak 67/JB, Jhang Road; Chak 222/RB; Chak 70/JB, Mansuran, Jhang Road; Chak 67/JB; Chak 233/RB, Samundari Road; Chak 671/JB; Umer Garden, Chak 67/JB, Waliabad; Shareef Azafiabadi, Chak 233/RB; Al-Fareed Izafi Abadi, Chak 263/RB; Al-Jannat Villas/Rafique Garden, Chak 263/RB Dijkot; Izafi Abadi Chak 258/RB, Samundari Road; Izafi Abadi Chak 263/RB, Dijkot; Izafi Abadi, Chak 262/RB; Izafi Abadi, Roshanwala Block, Chak 243/RB; Chishtia Valley, Chak 243/RB, Samundri Road; Farooq Block, Chak 223/RB Samundari Road; Green Town, Chak 223/RB; New Gulberg Private Housing Scheme, Chak 263/RB Dijkot; Pak Madina City, Chak 254/RB; Rose Rise Valley, Chak 223/RB, Samundari Road; Roshan City, Chak 243/RB; Madina Block, Chak 223/RB; Al-Madina Garden Chak 119/GB, Al-Rahman Garden, Chak 239/GB; Swan Town, Chak 126/GB; Gulshan Ali Haider, Chak 229/GB; Model Town Villas, Chak 119/GB; Rahman Town, Chak 119/GB; Umair Town, Chak 119/GB; Waqas Town, Chak 119/GB, and Adam Valley, Chak 110/GB.

Other illegal colonies are Adullah Garden, Chak 73/JB, Jhang Road; Ahmed City, Chak 124/JB, Narwala Road; Air Avenue City Extension (Royal Block), Chak 230/RB, Jhang Road; Al- Masoom Garden, Chak 219/RB; Ali Garden, Chak 29/JB; Ali Raza Garden, Chak 219/RB; Ali Town, Chak 59/JB; Ali Villas, Chak 73/JB, Jhang Road; Aqsa Town, Chak 219/RB, Narwala Road; Bilal Town, Chak 124/JB, Narwala Road; Bismillah Town, Chak 123/JB, Sidhu Pura; Canal Views, Chak 58/JB, Narwala Road; Danial Town/Ibrahim Town, Chak 123/JB, Sidhu Pura; Defence View, Chak 58/JB, Narwala Road; Dogar Town, Chak 71/JB, Sarli; Emaan Villas, Chak 58/JB, Narwala Road; Fareed Town, Chak 219/RB; Fareed Town-II, Chak 219/RB; Garden Town, Chak 71/JB, Sarli; Ghafoor Town, Chak 219/RB, Middle Narwala Road and Jhang Road; Gulshan Barkat, Chak 100/JB; Gulshan-e-Rehmat, Chak 100/JB, Narwala Road; Gulshan-e-Subhan, Chak 219/RB; Hamza Town, Chak 219/RB, Narwala Road; Hunain Valley, Chak 100/JB; Ibrahim Town, Chak 219/RB; Ismael Town, Chak 66/JB; Jamia Colony New Block, Chak 219/RB, Jhang Road; Kareem City, Chak 7/JB, Daewoo Road; Lasani City, Chak 7/JB, Daewoo Road; Lasani Garden, Chak 123/JB, Daewoo Raod; Makkah City, Chak 219/RB, Narwala Road; Maqbool Town, Chak 61/JB, Narwala Road; Naseem Garden, Chak 8/JB, Narwala Road; Pearl Valley, Chak 219/RB, Narwala Road; Rehman City, Chak 219/RB, Narwala Road; Rehman Valley, Chak 74/JB; Saif Homes, Chak 219/RB; Sarfaraz Garden, Chak 6 /JB, Borey Waal Road; Chak 61/JB; Chak 219/RB; Chak 100/JB; Chak 100/JB; Chak 59/JB; Chak 219/RB, Jhang Road; Housing Scheme, Chak 67/JB; Star City, Chak 67-JB; Sultan Town, Chak 100/JB, Kuriwala Road; Yousaf Housing Scheme, Chak 124/JB; Chak 6/JB; Raza Garden Chak 100/JB; Ibrahim Town/Izafi Abadi Mohalla Haider-e-Abad, Chak 100/JB; Palm Valley, Chak 219/RB; Azafi Abadi Gulam Muhammadabad Chak 100/JB; Azafi Abadi Ghulam Muhammad Abad Chak 100/JB; Azafi Abadi Rehmatabad, Mohalla Fazalabad Azafi Abadi Chak 100/JB; Arbab Garden, Chak 100/JB; Azaam Garden, Chak 100/JB; SubhanAllah Garden, Chak 61/JB, Narwala Road; Tahir Garden, Chak 100/JBl; lqbal Garden, Chak 58/JB, Narwala Road; Mukhatar Town, Chak 59/JB, Narwala Road; Bismillah Block, Chak 219/RB; Tariq Town, Chak 123/JB; Rohaab Block, Chak 100/JB; Junaid Garden, Chak 61/JB, Narwala; Chak 66/JB, Jhang Road; Sandhu Town, Chak 67/JB, Jhang Road; Major Garden, Chak 73/JB, Jhang Road; Abdullah Garden VIP Block, Chak 73/JB, Jhang Road; New Satellite Town, Chak 218/RB; Ajwa Garden, Chak 100/JB; Izafi Abadi, Chak 8/JB; Izafi Abadi, Dharora, Chak 61/JB Narwala Road, and Bismillah Phase-II 61/JB.

Besides 17 more illegal colonies were detected, including Abdullah Town, Chak 197/RB; Ahmed Garden, Chak 197/RB, Bhagywala Road; Ahmed Garden/Chak 197/RB, Bhagewala Road; Izafi Abadi, Chak 202/RB; Dry Port City, Chak 201/RB, Near Parko, Jhumra Road; Gulshan-e-Ali Phase-II, Chak 203/RB, Canal Road; Hassan Block, Chak 203/RB, Canal Road, Near Faisal Town; Rehman Town (Latif Garden), Chak 197/RB; Chak 201/RB; Chak 207/RB; Chak 197/RB; Chak 202/RB Gatti; The Academic Employees Cooperative Society, Chak 197/RB; Umair Garden, Chak 203/RB; Waheed Garden, Chak 197/RB, Bhagewala Road; Wali Town (Latif Garden), Chak 197/RB; and Rose Garden Chak 198/RB.

The director general of the FDA, Aamir Aziz, talking to Dawn said that strict action has been taken against many developers, who had started selling plots without even submitting any document to the authority for approval.

Published in Dawn, May 14th, 2019