The committee was chaired by MNA Haji Muhammad Akram Ansari here on Friday. The committee also decided to invite joint venture partner of the project, officials of the National Highways Authority (NHA) and FGEHF for a comprehensive briefing on the issue. The director general FGEHF apprised the committee that feasibility of water availability was carried out by Geophysics Department of Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), which had confirmed about an ample amount of water available for the project.
He further apprised of the Foundation's plan of constructing a mini-dam for water storage and installation of tube-wells that would supply water to the housing project. He informed that development work would not be initiated until reservations of the committee members are addressed. The committee directed the FGEHF to increase quota for widows of deceased federal government employees from 1 per cent to 3 per cent, keeping in view their hardships.
The committee also directed to expedite the land acquisition as well as the process of verification of data of potential members of housing scheme in sectors F-14 and F-15. The committee was apprised that data (quota and category wise) of membership drive phase-II has been uploaded on website of the FGEHF and consent letters have been issued to the members in categories 1-3. He said that development work would be initiated upon acquiring physical possession of the land from the district administration Islamabad and would be completed within two years.
The meeting was attended by MNAs Rajab Ali Khan Baloch, Rana Zahid Hussain Khan, Nasir Iqbal Bosal, Tahira Aurangzeb, Khalida Mansoor, Nighat Parveen Mir, Abdul Sattar Bachani, Imran Zafar Leghari, Sajid Nawaz Khan and Ghulam Sarwar Khan, secretary Ministry of Housing and Works, director general FGEHF and other officers of the relevant departments.
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