RDA seals, demolishes illegal structures
Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has launched a grand operation against illegal construction in the garrison city to curb encroachments and land grabbing.
According to a spokesman, the drive was launched on the directives of the RDA Director General (DG) Muhammad Saif Anwar Jappa.
The authorities concerned on Sunday conducted operations against illegal and unauthorised commercial buildings and sealed 100 shops in five markets near Banni stop and Mori Ghazan area on Chakri Road.
Four shops and one under-construction residential building were sealed in Gulraiz Housing Scheme.
He said that the RDA Land Use and Building Control (LU&BC) Wing conducted operations against the rules violators, illegal and unauthorised commercial cum residential buildings under its ongoing anti-encroachment drive.
He said the LU&BC Wing's staff including two Assistant Directors, Building Inspectors and others carried out operations against illegal commercial buildings and sealed the aforesaid illegal commercial buildings as the owners of the properties had violated approved plans and maps.
They had also violated the Punjab Development of Cities Act 1976 and RDA Building and Zoning Regulations 2021, he added.
The spokesman said the DG had given two weeks' time to the owners in order to submit the approved maps so that their buildings could be regularised.
The strict action was taken in accordance with the law after the owners failed to do so. He told that the DG had directed the authorities concerned to take strict action against illegal and unauthorised residential cum commercial buildings and encroachments without any discrimination.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 31st, 2022.