Forgotten plan: CDA fails to rehabilitate, relocate ‘recognised’ slums
CDA survey puts number of houses in eight katchi abadis at 4,814.
A view of a katchi abadi in Sector G-7. PHOTO: INP
ISLAMABAD:
The city managers have failed to implement a decade-old rehabilitation and relocation plan of the recognized katchi abadis in the capital.
Under the Model Urban Shelter Project, the authority on the directions of the federal government had to relocate four sulms and up-grade six others at their existing sites.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) recognizes as many as 10 katchi abadis which include Tent Colony at Sector G-7/1, 66 Quarters in Sector G-7/2, 48 Quarters in Sector G-7/3, Katchi Abadi in Sector G-8/1, 100 Quarters in Sector F-6/2, France Colony in Sector F-7/4, Essa Nagri in Sector I-9/1, Dhoke Najju in Sector I-10/4, Haq Bahu in Sector I-11/4 and Muslim Colony on the east of the Prime Minister House.
Haq Bahu, Dhoke Najju, Essa Nagri and Muslim Colony were supposed to be relocated to the Farash Town.
So far, the authority has relocated only two abadies — Haq Bahu and Dhoke Najju — by providing 425 residential plots to its dwellers.
The residents of Essa Nagri and Muslim Colony refused to move out despite the fact that some 829 plots were allotted to residents of these two abadis.
The authority so far has also failed to carry out the up-gradation work of remaining six abadis and people of these localities are living a miserable life.
A survey by the Katchi Abadi Cell of the CDA puts the number of housing units at the remaining eight katchi abadis at 4,814.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2014.
The city managers have failed to implement a decade-old rehabilitation and relocation plan of the recognized katchi abadis in the capital.
Under the Model Urban Shelter Project, the authority on the directions of the federal government had to relocate four sulms and up-grade six others at their existing sites.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) recognizes as many as 10 katchi abadis which include Tent Colony at Sector G-7/1, 66 Quarters in Sector G-7/2, 48 Quarters in Sector G-7/3, Katchi Abadi in Sector G-8/1, 100 Quarters in Sector F-6/2, France Colony in Sector F-7/4, Essa Nagri in Sector I-9/1, Dhoke Najju in Sector I-10/4, Haq Bahu in Sector I-11/4 and Muslim Colony on the east of the Prime Minister House.
Haq Bahu, Dhoke Najju, Essa Nagri and Muslim Colony were supposed to be relocated to the Farash Town.
So far, the authority has relocated only two abadies — Haq Bahu and Dhoke Najju — by providing 425 residential plots to its dwellers.
The residents of Essa Nagri and Muslim Colony refused to move out despite the fact that some 829 plots were allotted to residents of these two abadis.
The authority so far has also failed to carry out the up-gradation work of remaining six abadis and people of these localities are living a miserable life.
A survey by the Katchi Abadi Cell of the CDA puts the number of housing units at the remaining eight katchi abadis at 4,814.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2014.