FIRs lodged against 43 ‘illegal housing schemes’ in Pindi

RDA says it is also taking legal action against the advertisement and marketing of illegal housing schemes

RAWALPINDI:

The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has registered first information reports (FIRs) against 43 illegal hosing societies.

The cases were registered RDA’s Metropolitan Planning and Traffic Engineering (MP&TE) Directorate following the directions of RDA Chairman Tariq Mehmood Murtaza and RDA Director General Chaudhary Maqbool Ahmed by

The RDA said it was also taking legal action against the advertisement and marketing of illegal housing schemes.

The authority said it had registered FIRs and issued notices to the sponsors of the illegal 43 housing schemes.

The RDA said it had warned all that without getting a no-objection certificate (NOC) from it before the launch of housing schemes, apartment projects and commercial buildings within its area, all sorts of advertisement, marketing and development of such projects through advertisement agencies, private limited companies and civil proprietorships is illegal.

The RDA has also advised the public not to make any investment in illegal housing schemes. Moreover, the sponsors have also been warned to stop the marketing of their unapproved/illegal housing scheme and should contact the RDA for getting approval of the scheme as per the law.

“Otherwise, strict legal action will be taken against them,” said the RDA spokesman.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 4^th, 2021.