Sector G-14 alottees get plots after 25 years

Housing minister tells Senate 1,460 kanals transferred to owners

ISLAMABAD:

Minister for Housing and Works Chaudhary Tariq Bashir Cheema on Wednesday informed the Senate that 1,460 kanals of land had been handed over and transferred to allottees in Sector G/14 in Islamabad 25 years after allotment.

Responding to a question during question hour, he said due to Covid-19 the development of Sector G-14 was stalled in months of March, April and then work in the sector was resumed in May.

He said that the award of land in Sector G-14/4 Islamabad was announced in 1995 at the rate of Rs230,000 per kanal for total land of 1,459 kanals. The minister said, the Sector G/14/4 was now developed and allottees were residing there.

Tariq said that the land falling in sectors G-14/1, 2 and 3, the award of land was announced in 2005 at the rate of Rs590,000 per kanal for total land of 4820 kanals, the amount was transferred to the LAC office ICT, which was accordingly paid to the respective owners of the land.

He said that provisionally about 999 plots handed over to the respective allottees in sector G14/2 and 3 Islamabad. Responding to another question, he said the award of built-up property (BUP) in Sector G-14/1, 2 is yet to be made for which survey of BUPs was going on. He said that Rs1.89 billion had been awarded as compensation for 529 BUPs in G-14/3 by the LAC.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th, 2020.