RDA issues notices to residents using buildings illegally

[Salman]

RDA issues notices to residents using buildings illegally


RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has issued notices to residents who are using their residential buildings for commercial purposes.
About 50 notices have been issued to beauty parlours and schools, which are being illegally run in residential buildings at High Court Road. Action will also be taken against a plaza which has been built in Gulrez Housing Scheme.
In residential areas, people have built larger houses and rented them out to owners of beauty parlours and private schools. They receive monthly rent of about Rs 25,000 from owners of beauty parlours and Rs 50,000 to Rs 100,000 from private schools but don’t declare their buildings commercial to evade taxes.
In related news, in order to regularise commercial buildings on Airport Link Road, owners of commercial buildings have assured submission of a map and commercial fee.
A delegation of commercial building owners on Airport Link Road called on RDA Director General Chaudhry Nasir Ahmad and assured him that they are ready to regularise their buildings by submitting regularisation fee and maps for approval.
Complaining about the sealing of their properties on a daily basis, the owners said that they wanted to end the problem by regularising their properties