Incomplete project: NAB chief orders probe into Park Enclave housing scheme

CDA not handing over plots, people tell corruption watchdog

Taking notice of non-allotment of plots to citizens specially overseas Pakistanis, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal has ordered an inquiry into irregularities in Park Enclave housing scheme in the federal capital.

The project is being built by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) in Kurri Village of Islamabad’s Zone-IV. The site comprises Islamabad Park and rural peripheries wedged between Murree Road towards the north and Lehtrar Road towards the south and extending beyond Simly Road up to the edge of the Islamabad Capital Territory limits in the northeast.

The project, launched in 2011, is yet to be completed despite passage of eight years, said a statement issued by the corruption watchdog on Thursday. The NAB chief has taken notice of complaints over non-allotment of plots despite collection of billions of rupees from public specially those living abroad, it added.

The Capital Development Authority (CDA), despite not only allegedly spending millions on advertisement and receiving approximately Rs15 billion from the masses, has failed to complete the project on time. “This is not only a serious joke with the public but also a case of severe misuse of authority by the officials concerned.”

The project, Park Enclave, is being built by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) in Zone-IV of the capital.

CDA had planned to develop Park Enclave to offer a modern, gated, suburban residential area to ease the housing pressures within the city. The site is part of Zone-IV in Kurri Village, off Park and Kurri Road. It comprises Islamabad Park and rural peripheries wedged between Murree Road towards the north and Lehtrar Road towards the south and extending beyond Simly Road up to the edge of the Islamabad Capital Territory limits in the northeast.

The project was supposed to be built in two phases with phase one of society to see the development of 1,727.85 kanals of land where 781 residential and 35 commercial plots of various sizes would be built. Work on it started in February 2015 and is nearly complete.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 19^th, 2018.