Allottees have to wait more as CDA rejects PC-1

Islamabad

The allottees of Park Enclave would have to wait more to get possession of their plots as the technical committee of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) rejected Rs3.68 billion PC-1 for development of the posh sector.

CDA Chairman Nadeem Hasan Asif who chaired the technical committee meeting raised objections on various expenditures, which have been shown in the PC-1 directing the concerned officials to revise the document.

CDA chairman was not satisfied with high cost of the entry gate costing Rs20 million, administrative expenses and construction of a school at the expense of the civic body. He was of the view that the CDA officers did not need to draw allowances from the project cost as they are already getting salaries from the CDA kitty.

The chairman also expressed his dismay over heavy expenses to the tune of Rs100 million made on publicity of Park Enclave.

At the same time, the chairman also scrapped project of LED lights observing that it would cost too high to the authority. Each of 67,000 LED lights were to cost CDA Rs80,000 per light.

The committee, however, accorded approval to Rs98 million PC-1 installation of six new lifts at the Cabinet Block. It may be pointed out here that the Park Enclave was launched over two years back during tenure of then chairman Imtiaz Inayat Elahi and in the first phase, a total of 700 plots were sold out through balloting. It was also promised with allottees that the development work would be completed in 18 months time.

But instead, the CDA spent Rs2 billion earned from sale of plots of Park Enclave on the other heads and situation forced a number of allottees to surrender their plots.