ISLAMABAD: As many as 48 cases of allotment of houses to the government employees of the Ministry of Housing and Works were pending in various courts of law of different categories since several years.
The Estate Office was continuously pursuing the cases in court of law and further action would be taken as well as the cases were disposed of from the concerned courts, an official in the ministry told APP.
The official said that it was a fact that sometimes the retired federal government servants do not vacate government accommodations upon retirement due to involvement of Rules 15(2) of Accommodation Allocation Rules, 2002 or court cases.
The official said that these houses were vacated as soon as cases were disposed of from the courts.
To a question, he said that the federal government had allocated Rs2.5 million for repair and maintenance of 2,163 houses and flats (Cat-I to VI) for the current financial year. Out of which, the official said, Rs0.940 million had been released by the end of 2019 and funds to the tune of Rs0.750 million of the third quarter were expected to be released soon.
He said that the Ministry of Housing and Works was entrusted to carryout repair and maintenance of houses and flats located in various sectors of the federal capital.
According to census 2017, he said that there were 32.21 million houses in the country with annual estimated growth of 2.4 per cent the total number of houses should be around 33.71 million.
To another question, he said that the ministry has received around Rs23.235 billion from the eligible members who had shown their consent to get residential plots in the multiple residential schemes in the federal capital during the last ten years.
The Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA) had issued consent letters to its members for the housing schemes including Green Enclave-I, Green Enclave-II, Thallian Scheme, housing scheme in sector F-14 and F-15 and Park Road Housing Scheme, he added.
He also said that the authority had received Rs1,075,826,328 from the members of Bhara Kahu (GE-I), Rs6,016,790,090 from Bhara Kahu (GE-II), Rs11,880,000,000 from Sector F-14 and F-15, Rs2,462,657,453 from Thallian and Rs1,800,000,000 from Park Road.
He added that development work has already started in Green Enclave-I housing scheme where the plots would be handed over to the allottees after the development work was over.
“Regarding Green Enclave-II, the joint venture partner could not provide land which resulted into the termination of the contract. Later, a joint venture agreement on land sharing basis was concluded with another land provider and developer, adjacent to the scheme in October, 2019,” he further said.
The official said that the land up to 6,000 kanals already mutated in the name of the FGEHA and development work started with access to site already completed. The layout plan is in final stage, initial allotment would be made in 30-45 days and development work would start in 60 days and to be ready for possession in one year, he added.
Regarding Thallian scheme, the official said that efforts were underway to resolve access and approach through joint venture partner and National Highway Authority (NHA) from Motorway in form of dedicated interchange, whereas the housing scheme Sector F-14, F-15 and Park Road were presently under litigation in Supreme Court (SC) and the development work on the schemes would be started after the decision of the court and acquisition of land in these sectors.
