ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: The interior ministry has asked the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to immediately get its 20,000 acres vacated from encroachers, sources in the ministry told Dawn.

The sources said the authority had been directed to chalk out a comprehensive plan in this regard. However, they said most of the CDA land, which fell in the periphery of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), could not be evacuated without the assistance of the administration.

High ranking officials of the CDA have been suggested that an official from the District Management Group (DMG) should be appointed as director enforcement so that he could resolve the issues between the CDA and the ICT administration, the sources said. The ministry also directed the ICT administration to support the CDA in resolving the issue, they added.

It also ordered the authority to make some necessary amendments in the CDA Ordinance 1960 to tighten the noose around encroachers.

A CDA official told Dawn that the authority’s land had been occupied in various areas of Islamabad and some of the occupants had gone for litigation to protect themselves from any action of the authority.

He said the authority was also making necessary amendments in its rules and regulation to check unauthorized construction in future in Islamabad.

The official said the CDA’s consultant law had been assigned the task of recommending necessary amendments, in accordance with the CDA’s planning wing and the ICT administration.

The authority, he said, had completed necessary formalities for implementation of the contingency plan for removal of unauthorized construction from green areas of the service road (west) in sectors F-11 and G-11.

The CDA’s enforcement directorate has been asked to overcome the problem of adverse possession of land and mushroom construction activities in Zone-IV and other parts of the rural areas of the capital.

The official said unauthorized construction activity on either side of G.T.Road within the municipal limits of Islamabad would be removed.

The authority has decided that immediate action against encroachments in the right way of the roads should be taken in accordance with the ICT administration and police.

The CDA is also preparing a plan to get its land vacated which was being used for agriculture purposes by the locals.