The Capital Development Authority (CDA) seems to be revamping up their game as a civic body as it has announced a range of new measures to help the public, in utilizing their services, within the capital city. Everybody knew that the CDA needed to wake up and it seems like they’ve planned to get up and handle their business. The new measures which the CDA has announced to undertake, in a bid to facilitate the public, are as follows:
• CDA is developing a digital system with the collaboration of NADRA to provide online services to its clients in the foreseeable future. The processes and records will be made more secure and transparent as the authority intends to employ biometric verification
• CDA will handover ‘completion of property’ certificates for residential buildings in 13 working days, small buildings in 19 working days, and other structures in 27 days
• CDA will solve your cases related to the transfer of property in settled localities within 10 days and NOC for transfer of property will be given in 5 working days. Also, the transfer of property in affectees’ sectors will be conducted in 28 days
• CDA will resolve your cases related to the bifurcation of residential and commercial plots in 17 days. Additionally, the bifurcation and amalgamation of industrial plots will be done in 18 days
• CDA will approve your building plans for residential buildings in 11 working days and in case if there was a problem, they will inform you within 7 days
• CDA plans that lease extension cases of plots for hospitals, schools, commercial plots, and agro-industrial plots will be dealt with within five days
• CDA is committed to eradicate forged allotment papers for which it plans to introduce barcode-based stamp papers that cannot be easily forged as they have unique numbers. This should put an end to those providing fake allotment papers
• Also, the CDA will not demand from you to produce no-objection certificate (NOC) from the revenue directorate for property’s transfer and will accept the last tax bill and dues bill
• Cases about trade change for industrial plots will be resolved within 27 working days
All of these measures and deadlines will make many things easier and transparent of CDA actually went all the way and materialized them.