Affected people of Islamabad reject balloting for plots

Islamabad: The affected people of different sectors of Islamabad have rejected the balloting process for allotment of alternative plots conducted by the Estate Wing of the Capital Development Authority (CDA).

The affected persons present on the occasion of balloting process registered a strong protest while raising slogans against the Minister of State for Capital Administration and Development (CAD), Member Estate and Director Estate.

They said the CDA did not follow SoPs recently devised by the authority for allotment of alternative plots to the affected persons.They said the officers’ conducting the balloting process deviated from the SoPs and instead of computerised, manual balloting was carried out while accusing officials of taking bribe. “The best plots in Sector I-11 were allotted to favourite people,” they accusedMeanwhile, a press release issued by the CDA said the authority has allotted 330 plots of different sizes to the affected persons of Islamabad in Sector I-11 and I-12. These plots were allotted through balloting which include 60 plots of 25x50 size and 50 plots of 25x60 size, in Sector I-11, 118 plots of 25x50 size and 102 plots of 30x60 size in I-12.

The plots have been allotted to the affected whose land was acquired by CDA decades ago. The allotment of plots has been made through manual balloting by the committee constituted under the new SOPs introduced on the directions of Mayor of Islamabad and Chairman CDA, Sheikh Anser Aziz.

The committee was supervised over by Member Estate, CDA, Khushal Khan. Director Land, Deputy Commissioner CDA, Additional Director Estate Affectees and a large number of affected persons of Islamabad and representatives of media were also present. Manual procedure was adopted for balloting, under which one box was used for names of affectees and the other box was used for plot numbers.

Mayor of Islamabad and CDA Chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz said that the present government has introduced a very effective system for allotment of plots adding that under the new SOPs, merit and transparency would be ensured.