Director General Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA) Captain (retired) Muhammad ZafarIqbal on Monday informed the committee that the housing authority had launched 12 housing and apartment projects from 2001 to 2023, under which an amount of Rs. 56 billion had been collected so far.
During a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Housing and Works held here under the chairmanship of Haji Hidayatullah Khan, the DG clarified that allocations had been made from those candidates who qualified for the relevant schemes.
However, he said, the Thallian Housing Scheme has been discontinued due to land-related issues, and those who were allocated the plots, would be accommodated in the upcoming schemes according to the established criteria. The chairman of the body while raising concerns over delay in the projects asked investigation into this matter.
Additionally, the chairperson requested the information regarding the financial and tangible advantages associated with the allotted plots.
The officials from the Ministry of Housing and Works clarified that the delay in the projects stemmed from technical issues. One of the reason for the postponement of the two-day auction of class-III commercial plots in sector G-13/G-14 and the fuel station plot in the Mauve Area is that a writ petition was filed by Quaid-e-Azam University (Q.A.U), claiming a share in the sale proceeds from the auction of commercial plots in G-14/4 and the Mauve Area.
DG ZafarIqbal further explained that they were compliant with the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) and were persistent in expediting the auction before Ramazan, but they were given two options either to dispose of this case or to give sufficient time to the university.
It was reported that G-14/1 and G-14/2 and G-14/3 are partially completed with an approved project cost of Rs. 6127.90 million for G-14/1 and Rs. 1499.43 million for G-14/2 and G-14/3, while G-15/3 is partially completed with 404 plots available for possession, and the approved cost of the project is Rs. 1,453.866 million. They highlighted that the contract for the land in G-14-1, which is pending, has encountered significant Build up Property resulting in the cancellation of plots. However, they noted that 50 Kanal (1 percent) of G-14-1 has been cleared.
