PHA assures Federal Ombudsman of early completion of Kuri Road housing project

Islamabad

Managing Director of Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA) has handed out a commitment to the Legal Adviser, Agha Nadeem of Federal Ombudsman that the authority will complete the construction work of the category one houses at Kuri Road project by March 2018 and of the category 2 by June 2018, and half of the housing units in this category will be completed by the end of this year, says a press release.

The meeting was held here Tuesdayat the Federal Ombudsman Secretariat which was attended by the representatives of the PHA, allottees of the houses who expressed their acute concern over the delay of the completion of the project that was launched way back in 2008.

The PHA informed the legal adviser that the work on the category (2) houses had been resumed which was suspended by the contractor due to the procedural lacunas between him and the PHA. The legal adviser directed the Pakistan Housing Authority managing director to ensure that no such snags hit the pace of the construction work in the future.

The issue of escalation of cost also came under discussion and the representatives of the allottees pleaded that they would have to bear the burden of the escalation of the cost for the no fault of theirs because they were pretty prompt in making the payment as per schedule formulated by the PHA.

It may be mentioned here that there are 117 housing units in category one, 178 units in category (2) and 338 in category (3).

The head of the Engineering department apprised the meeting that more than 75 per cent of the infrastructure works had been completed on the project adding that the PHA was also pro-actively pursuing to build wide access road that would make the approach for the residents in and out quite comfortable.

It is expected that the completion of the project would ease up the pressure on the shortage of the residential accommodation in the federal capital.