Beware of investing your money in residential plots in cooperative housing societies in Gadap Town, Malir Town, Gulzar-e-Hijri or Gulshan-e-Maymar. There are 69 of approximately 200 cooperative housing societies that have not been legally cleared by the land owing agencies or Sindh Building Control Authority. Their status is “suspended” at the SBCA as their layout plans haven’t been approved by the Cooperative Housing Societies Registrar. These housing societies are:The SBCA director of information technology, Asma Ghayoor, who is also the head of the SBCA’s Single Window Facility, has said that the authority has a proper e-portal system, which is linked to all the land owing agencies of Karachi. She said when the building plan of any plot comes to the Single Window Facility for approval, the SBCA wants the verification of its layout plan by the Master Plan Department of the relevant land-owing agency along with the name of the person it has been allotted to. The MPD of the land owing agency sends the verification through the e-portal and, after cross-checking, the SBCA approves the building plan for construction.
