FGEHF launched five housing schemes in four years

Islamabad: Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) has launched five housing schemes in the federal capital during the last four years to provide maximum housing facilities to the employees and general public.

The housing schemes included Housing Scheme Phase-VI, (Bhara-Kahu), Housing Scheme Phase-VI, (F-14/F-15), Housing Scheme Phase-VIII (Thallian), Housing Scheme Phase-IX (EHFPRO) and Housing Scheme Phase-X (Park Road), an official in the Ministry of Housing and Works told APP.

The mandate of FGEHF is to provide shelter to the government employees and other specified groups on No Profit No Loss basis, he said. He said all the schemes were in progress and housing foundation would try its level best to complete the scheme within a stipulated time period.

The housing foundation started membership drive for the registration of federal government employees in 2009 when the members were registered on the basis of first come first serve and it ended in February 2014, in which almost 36,000 employees got registered, he added.

In addition, around 100,000 federal employees got registered themselves in membership drive-II which started on the basis of age-wise seniority in April 2015 and closed in July 2017. In sectors F-14/F-15, he said that 36000 applicants in Cat-I, II and Ill) received against 7,201 plots while 6,200 consent letters and 4,700 provisional offer letters had been issued, he added.

He said that in Thallian as many as 98,000 applications received by the authority against 9,104 plots and 5460 consent letters had been issued. In Housing Scheme Phase-IX (EHFPRO), he said that there were total 3,500 applicants against 2,222 apartments while 2,200 consent letters and 1,100 provisional offer letters have been issued.

The official said that in Park Road Housing Scheme, the foundation had received 93,000 applications against the 2,345 plots while 1,000 consent letters had been issued. To a question about the performance, he said the government has allocated a sum of Rs2.200 million for repair and maintenance of 2,163 government houses scattered in Rawalpindi and Islamabad during current financial year.

Out of the total, an amount Rs1.500 million has been allocated for Civil Division and Rs0.700 million for E/M Division, he added. He said that Central Civil Division-VIII, Pak PWD, Islamabad and Central E/M Division-II, Pak PWD, Islamabad are maintaining the houses of categories I and II Sector G-10/3 including other houses of different categories.