Senate Housing Society: Parliamentary panel wants fresh elections of management

Proposes oversight committee to monitor pace of development

ISLAMABAD: A subcommittee of the Senate panel on overseas Pakistanis on Friday recommended fresh elections for the management committee of the Senate Housing Society.

The committee has stipulated 60 days to complete the elections.

During a meeting of the subcommittee of the Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis in the Parliament House on Friday, Senator Saeedul Hassan Mandokhail noted that parliament’s members and employees, many of whom had used their life savings to pay had yet to be allotted plots in the housing society.

He added that those who had paid their dues should be allotted plots and given possession of their property.

He said the OPF housing scheme should work faster to assist overseas Pakistanis.

Senator Mandokhail said that a new management body was essential for expediting work on the Senate Housing Society. The committee recommended that fresh elections of the management committee be conducted within 60 days.

The committee also proposed to formulate an oversight committee to monitor the pace of development work in the housing society.

The committee also expressed concerns over the absence of Circle Registrar of Cooperative Housing Societies and the deputy commissioner and considered passing a privilege motion against them.

OPF’s managing director told the committee that the housing scheme was in its final stages of development and that access road to the housing scheme had already been acquired by asking the IB housing society.

While ground work is complete, around 24 kanals of land acquired for provision of water in the society has not yet been transferred. Mandokhail demanded that the land should be immediately acquired and transferred to the society. On this, the assistant commissioner assured that the issue would be resolved within a week and a report would be submitted to the committee.

CDA Member Planning said that the Senate Housing Society had been granted 679 kanals. With regards to the access road, he said that laws must be strictly obeyed. He added that the CDA plans to widen Japan road which leads to the housing societies.

The committee also sought a report on the drainage pipes in the OPF and Senate housing societies and whether they would be damaged during the rainy season.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 18^th, 2017.