CDA to establish medical college
“Govt should allow the import of construction material on barter otherwise, builders will be forced to move investments,” said ABAD chairman. Photo: file
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has approved the establishment of the CDA Capital Medical College in Islamabad. It has instructed the members of the planning wing and estate office to identify land to set up the college.
The decision was taken in a special meeting where the decision to earmark land in the Kahuta Triangle Industrial Area for a fire station and a dispensary. Sources privy to developments in the meeting said that the local chamber of commerce and industrial association would bear the expenses of dispensary and station to be built on CDA land.
The meeting also decided to add filtration plants at different commercial centers.
The CDA will construct these filtration plants and the business community will maintain them, the source added.
The meeting also gave approval to acquisition of land for the Federal Board of Revenue Academy.
The CDA board decided to constitute a committee to deal with matters pertaining to residential and commercial buildings in the boundaries of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
The representatives of the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA), CDA and cantonment boards will be the part of this committee.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 19th, 2023.