New Balakot City project

Landowners issued final notices
By Our correspondent
MANSEHRA: The district administration has served owners of 133 houses, shops and cattle pens situated at New Balakot City Housing Project with final notices to vacate the buildings till December 7.
The officials of the Revenue Department delivered notices to the landowners of all the 133 buildings in Patwar circles of Mungan Machipoll, Sari and Dodial on Saturday.
“We have already served with notices to those occupying houses, shops and cattle pens some three months ago. And if they are still reluctant to vacate the land, the law would take its course,” Ayaz Khan, the deputy commissioner, told a meeting of various departments.
The meeting, which also attended by Tehsildar Settlement Tanveer Shahzad also discussed in details various orders issued by both federal and provincial governments for early allotment of plots to survivors still living in makeshift structures in red zone of Balakot and Garlat.
The New Balakot city housing project meant for the settlement of 2005 earthquake survivors of red zone of Balakot and Garlat was launched in 2007 with an estimated cost of Rs13 billion over an area of 15,000 kanals of land.