Islamabad
The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry has established a facilitation desk of ICT Administration (ICTA) to resolve issues and provide services of around 18 departments working under the local administration to its members under one roof. Amir Ali Ahmed, Chief Commissioner Islamabad/Chairman CDA on Friday formally inaugurated the operation of the Facilitation Desk during a ceremony held at ICCI.
Addressing the ceremony, Amir Ali Ahmed announced that a representative of ICCI would be included in the Design Vetting Committee (DVC) of CDA to speed up approval of construction plans of private sector. Highlighting various initiatives taken to bring reforms in CDA, he said that CDA has now been converted into a financially robust civic body as it closed outgoing financial year with an amount of around Rs.9-billion in surplus while when he had taken over its charge, it was not able to pay salaries of its staff.
He said that CDA’s development budget has been increased from 20 percent to 36 percent. He said that CDA generated around Rs.17 billion from auction of plots. He said all stuck up development projects were being revived as CDA development cycle has got the momentum and an amount of Rs.25 billion has been dedicated for development works that would be further increased to Rs.35 billion. He said that these development works would give boost to business activities.
