Sargodha: The Punjab Housing Authority (PHA) recently announced its decision to develop housing projects on the 700 kanals of land held by the Tehsil Headquarters-Sargodha Division — with the initiative aimed at allotting three to five-marla plots to low-income families through a ballot, a news source reported. As per the publication, the government has already marked the land for this purpose in the Sillanwali and Shahpur areas of the district.
Deputy Commissioner Abdullah Nayyer chaired a meeting of the district housing committee in his conference room in the presence of various senior officials. The meeting approved the development of a housing scheme in Tehsil Sillanwali near Faisalabad Road on an area of 240-kanals. Additionally, the meeting also considered the 154-kanal land of the former Ashyana housing scheme in Sargodha and the 230-kanal land in Shahpur for the development of housing schemes.
The Deputy
Director Housing informed the meeting that apart from urban areas, surveys were
also being conducted in rural areas in the district for the construction of the
aforementioned housing schemes. He added that the main purpose of these
societies was to improve the lifestyle of poor people in the area, who would be
provided with state of the art features and amenities in their residences —
including a sewerage system, clean drinking water, electricity, and a network
of roads.
