Islamabad: Addressing a session of the Senate Standing Committee on Housing and Works on Thursday, Minister for Housing & Works Tariq Bashir Cheema informed that the balloting run for the Naya Pakistan Housing Programme (NPHP) Balochistan project would be conducted on July 29, according to a news source.
During the meeting, the minister further said that Pakistan was currently facing a shortage of 11 million homes; adding that the government was currently engaged with the construction of five million homes under NPHP on the directions of Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan.
Commenting on the Balochistan phase of the initiative, Cheema explained that the PM had inaugurated a project to build 1,350 houses in the province earlier this year; for which the Naya Pakistan Housing Authority has received up to 7,000 applications.
He informed that the PC-1 for the project is under preparation, and that it balloting would be held on the date stated.
The minister also provided the details of another housing project slated for development in Gwadar. He stated that 200 acres of land had been handed over to the housing authority for the purpose.
He further told the committee that six thousand houses would be built in Azad Jammu and Kashmir under NPHP – for which a total of 800 kanals in Mirpur and 120 kanals in Muzaffarabad had been acquired by the authority.
