Sector G-14: FGEHF seeks Rangers, police help against illegal construction

Says used Google maps to identify defaulter buildings

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) has sought help from Rangers, police and the ICT Administration in its drive against illegal construction in Sector G-14.

There are more than a 1,000 illegal structures in the sector, FGEHF said in its letter to the Rangers seeking assistance of the paramilitary force in the recovery process to regularise these buildings.

FGEHF, using Google map record from the establishment of the Sector G-14 in 2005 till date, claims that over 700 buildings owe it Rs4.5 billion.



Officials told the Daily Express that many people who got the lease awards in the said sector started construction without fulfilling legal formalities.

Whereas some houses and buildings have been erected on outright encroached land, they said.

The foundation in its letter claimed some illegally constructed houses have been purchased by illegal immigrants.

Presence of unregistered Afghan refugees in the capital is a security risk, FGEHF said in its communiqué to the Islamabad police chief, Rangers head, and ICT top bosses seeking action against illegal occupation of land and eviction of encroachers.

The foundation said that the sector was opened in 2005, but illegal construction, encroachment and land grabbing was so rampant in this area that people buy and sell houses and not the land.



Both the buyer and the seller know that land was encroached upon and the construction was illegal, so only the buildings were bought and sold, as the plot could not be transferred, officials said.

The said the letter has stated that FGEHF was trying to recover its stake in the sector. So far, officials claimed they have recovered 85% of its area in Sector G-14.

Regarding the use of Google maps, they said, FGEHF would take no action against buildings appearing on the record prior to 2005

Published in The Express Tribune, June 4^th, 2017.