RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has declared 31 housing schemes illegal and advised the public not to invest in these schemes.
An RDA spokesman said the 31 housing schemes declared illegal were: Jinnah Town, Airport Employees Cooperative Housing society, Gulshan-e- Ali, Janjua Town 1, Janjua Town II, Janjua Town III, Khyban-e-Millat, Rasool Town, National Town, Khyban-e-Quaid, T&T Housing Society, OGDC Town, Hamza Town, Sanghar Town, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Fazal Town phase II, Gulberg Town, Lake Vista Residential Rawal City, Pam City, Jabbar City, Usman Black, Jublee Town, Lawyers Town, Radio Colony, Federation of Employees Cooperate Housing Society, Samarzar Housing project, Gulraiz Housing Scheme, Metro Homes, Babar Homes, Paras Villas and Al-Falah Homes.
He said that 43 housing societies, including Bahria Town phase I, II & III, Bahria Town phase VIII, Doctor Town, Fizaia Housing Scheme, Foreign Office Employees Cooperative Housing Society, Garden Villas, Gulshan-e-Abad, Judicial Colony, Kehkashan Town, University Town, Kohsar View Housing Project, Municipal Corporation Cooperative Housing Scheme, Pak. Atomic Energy Employees Cooperative Housing Society, Pak Employees Cooperative Housing Society, Rabia Bangalows, Safari Villas-I, Revenue Employees Cooperative Housing Society, Top City I, Mumtaz City, Bostan Avenue Housing Project, Army Welfare Housing Scheme (Defense-I), Safari Villas-II, Khudadad City, Gulshan-e- Fatima, Shalimar Town, PIA Officer Cooperative Housing Society, Eastridge Housing Scheme, Shifa Cooperative Housing Scheme, Bahria Paradise, Tarnol Housing Scheme, Cilfton Town, T&T Housing Scheme, Rawalpindi Railway Employees Cooperative Housing Society, Up-Country Enclosure PARC Housing Scheme, CBR, Cooperative Society, Golden Jublee Cooperative Housing Scheme, Faisal Town, Commoner Sky Gardens Housing Scheme, Murree, Sanober City and Gandhara City had been approved by the authority.
“On the directives of the Rawalpindi Division Commissioner Talat Mahmood Gondal, RDA’s Building Control Wing team is regularly conducting operations with the assistance of police against illegal constructions, which violate Punjab Development of Cities Act 1976 and RDA Building and Zoining Regulations 2007,” he said.
The DG had earlier directed the Enforcement Wing to take strict action in accordance with the law against illegal/unauthorised commercial and residential construction and encroachments in the town.
The spokesman said that the housing societies should not to violate the rules. Otherwise, he said, strict action would be taken against the rules violators.
Food adulterers: Mayor Islamabad and Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Shaikh Anser Aziz on Tuesday said that food adulteration was a heinous crime that needed to be stopped.
“Food adulterators are enemies of society. A comprehensive and sustained campaign is required to defeat these anti social criminal elements. Food adulterators play with lives of people. We need a pro-active approach against the food adulterators,” he said while chairing a review meeting of Directorate of Health Services.
Officers of the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) attended the meeting.
“Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has a vision for a healthy Pakistan. Under his guidance, MCI is proceeding against food adulterators. Action against food adulterators should be made more effective, fruitful and result oriented,” Anser Aziz said.
Published in Daily Times, July 5th , 2017.