Faisalabad: The Punjab government has announced its decision to amend several development authority rules in its bid to regularise illegal housing schemes in the province, a news source reported. Further, the Punjab Local Government Board Secretary has formed a committee that will be tasked with formulating a regularisation policy to this effect.
This committee will comprise members of the local government from all divisions in the province and officials from development authorities. The committee will scrutinise cases of illegal housing schemes from all 36 divisions and submit a separate report on each division.
Based on the report submitted by the committee, rules will be amended allowing developed housing schemes to seek approvals from the concerned development authority. Followed by this concession, the government will not allow any real estate or builder to conduct development work prior to procuring all related approvals.
Soon after the illegal housing schemes are regularised, the committee will assist them in getting connections approved for utility services.
As per reports, the provincial government has also received some suggestions in terms of the process to be followed for regularising the illegal housing schemes. One such suggestion is to collect fines and penalty charges prior to granting approvals.
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