Director General (DG) Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Kinza Murtaza has advised the citizens not to invest in illegal housing societies and check their status before investment on RDA website www.rda.gop.pk. The citizens can also visit RDA office to get the information about legal and illegal housing societies, she said. She informed that 71 schemes were approved in Rawalpindi and 74 were under process while 359 schemes were illegal. The status of housing schemes is updated on the RDA website and efforts are also made to spread information for the awareness of the public, she added. The DG further said that that the authorities concerned of RDA were directed to regularly monitor approved and ongoing schemes besides taking legal action against illegal housing societies. RDA had issued legal notices to 560 schemes while 218 societies were challaned and their cases were sent to the magistrate’s court, she said adding, 221 FIRs were also lodged against the rules violators. Apart from this, RDA had also taken strict legal action against several schemes and sealed offices of 184 schemes and demolished illegal constructions, offices, main gates of 200 societies. The DG informed that the authorities concerned of FIA Cyber Crime Wing were also requested to take action against illegal advertisements, booking of plots, publicity campaigns of illegal housing schemes. Punjab Development Authority, Private Housing Scheme Rules 2021 are enforced and all-out efforts are being made to take strict action in accordance with the law against the rules violators, she added.