IHC to club cases of unpaid capital residents

The apex civic authority of the federal capital was on Wednesday served notices by the high court on compensating affectees of the historic Saidpur Village.

This was directed on Wednesday by a single-member bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), led by Chief Justice Athar Minallah while hearing a petition against the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on not compensating residents of the village.

The court further ordered to club the petition with other, identical cases pertaining to the CDA and affectees of other sectors and areas of the federal capital.

CJ Minallah then adjourned the case until Friday, November 27.

Development works

Meanwhile, the CDA said that it is continuing development works in neglected Sector E-12 and its sub-sectors.

An official of the authority said that a survey of sub-sectors Sector E-12/2 and E-12/3 has been completed while developmental works in the sector will be completed over the next three years for which the development working party’s session has approved a project concept-I (PC-I) worth Rs6.631 billion for the development of the sector.

CDA said that it had opened biddings for development of Sector E-12. As a result, 12 forms submitted bids to build roads, infrastructure, water supply system, sewerage system, and other basic facilities in the sector.

The authority said that a contract for the developmental work has now been awarded.

Moreover, work on the service road in Sector E-12 is in its final stage.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 26^th, 2020.