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The foundation had allotted plots in Sector G-14/1, 2 and 3. However, recipients of the plots have yet to be granted permission to build their houses.
Explaining the reason for this, the FGEHF said that the housing scheme’s Phase-IV had been launched in 2004 in Sector G-14 Islamabad with a total of 5,486 plots planned.
Land in the sector had been acquired through Land Acquisition Collector (LAC) under the Land Acquisition Act 1894. The consent award for sub-sector G-14/1, 2 and 3 was announced on January 29, 2005, at Rs590,000 per Kanal and infrastructure development work was taken up by the FGEHF.
However, the built-up property (BUP) Award for Sector G-14/3 was not announced until 2014. The award of 406 BUPs was announced on November 7, 2014, while a supplementary award for 122 BUPs was announced on March 20, 2017.
By January 2016, around 85 per cent of Sector G-14/2 and 3 had been handed over to a contractor for infrastructural development.
The FGEHF added that since 2017, 680 plots have been handed over to owners while 400 plots will be handed over soon with around 60 per cent of the development work for roads completed, while electricity lines have been laid by the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) and sub-sector G-14/3 has been energised.
Moreover, authorisation for construction of houses shall be granted for those plots where roads have been built in sub-sector G-14/3.
Even as work progress in the area available to FGEHF, it remains halted in portions of Sector G-14/3 which have been encroached. The housing foundation, though, expects that plot recipients will be allowed to start work on their homes within a month or two.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 15th, 2018.
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