Tariq Mehmood Murtaza, Chairman of the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA), has warned the citizens against investing in illegal and unlicensed housing schemes, advising them to check the status of housing societies at the RDA’s Metropolitan Planning and Traffic Engineering (MP&TE) Directorate or on the RDA’s official website rda.gop.pk.
He informed that RDA was regularly conducting raids against illegal housing schemes and strict action in accordance with the law was being taken against the rules violators.
The Chairman said that the authority was enforcing the regulations against violators such as plazas, stores, schools, residential and commercial construction and other illegal land use encroachments on a daily basis.
Tariq Mehmood Murtaza asked the citizens not to invest in illegal and unauthorised housing schemes and check status of the housing societies before any investment.
The owners of the properties found constructing illegal residential cum commercial buildings without approval of map/No Objection Certificates (NOCs), in violation of Punjab Development of Cities Act 1976 and RDA Building and Zoning Regulations 2020 were imposed fines.
He said that the authorities concerned had been directed to take strict action against the rules violators without any discrimination.
Under new policy introduced to promote construction activities in the district, he said, the building plans were being approved in 30 days, approval of change of land use in 45 days.
