The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) will establish a task force very soon to crack down against illegal housing schemes, the authority’s director-general Kinza Murtaza said on Thursday.
Chairing a meeting regarding illegal housing schemes, she directed the planning wing of the RDA to continue with the grand operation to stop hoodwinking of illegal housing schemes and looting citizens. The authority is receiving public complaints of illegal occupation by owners in illegal housing schemes and would take strict action against grabbers, the DG maintained.
Kinza further said that the authority had been issuing press releases from time to time for the information of the general public to not invest in illegal housing schemes and to visit the RDA website www.rda.gop.pk with an appeal to only buy and sell properties in approved housing schemes.
During the meeting, the DG directed the planning wing to immediately stop all kinds of development works, advertisements, events and sales of plots by the owners of illegal housing schemes and in case of non-compliance take legal actions against them under the Punjab Development of Cities Act 1976 and the Punjab Development Authorities Private Housing Scheme Rules 2021.
The DG RDA further directed that a redressal committee should be formed to address the concerns and grievances of the public and billboards should be placed at various places of the district to convey to the masses about approved and illegal housing schemes. The Director MP&TE, Deputy Director Planning and other officers participated in the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 27th, 2024.
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