The Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA) intends to begin new residential projects in eight major cities in Pakistan, including Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
According to Ministry of Housing and Works sources, new housing projects for the general public and federal government employees would be launched on a joint venture basis.
New residential developments, including plots, houses, and flats, would be introduced in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Lahore, Quetta, Faisalabad, Multan, and Karachi, according to sources.
Furthermore, it was revealed that landowners, businesses, and firms had been asked to submit expressions of interest (EOI) to expedite the subsequent process.
In this regard, proposals were sought from qualified individuals and landowners, as well as developers and corporations, for the provision of land for housing schemes in the aforementioned cities.
Sources also confirmed that the Joint Venture Regulations 2020 would govern applications for acquiring land for projects and their selection criteria.
It was also informed that the authority would accept applications expressing interest in FGEHA residential projects by December 22.
In another development, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has denied the Federal Government Employees Housing Authority’s (FGEHA) request to reserve eight plots in Sector I-8 for senior government officers on the waiting list.
According to the details, in response to the housing authority’s letter, the civic agency’s estate division informed the authority on October 25 that it would be unable to allocate any additional plots in Sector I-8 as requested by FGEHA.
The letter also stated that the FGEHA was assigned 2,945 plots in I-8 between 1990 and 2006 and that this number was also presented to the Supreme Court in 2011.
Similarly, it was noted that between 1990 and 2020, the CDA had already given the housing authority 1,498 plots in G-11 and 1,572 plots in D-12.
According to the civic agency, it handed over sectors G-12 and F-12 to the FGEHA on a federal cabinet directive a few years ago so that no new plots could be placed at its disposal.