Islamabad: Membership drive launched by the Federal Government Housing Foundation

[Naveed Yaseen]

Residence of choice

FGEHF membership drive continues

ISLAMABAD: The membership drive launched by the Federal Government Housing Foundation (FGEHF) of the Ministry of Housing to provide housing units under government’s launched schemes continues successfully.

Under the scheme,every registered employee would get an opportunity to have a house in the Federal Capital.

Ministry of Housing and Works Secretary Ahmed Bux Lehri said under the scheme the registered employees would be able to get houses, apartments or flats of their own choices on ‘first come, first served basis’.

About mechanism of ownership, he said all the newly constructed residences would be disposed of accordingly on the basis of submitted lists and the aspirants would be accommodated in updated lists.

Lehri said different categories of residences would be handed over to registered employees accordingly and no one would be left out to avail of this opportunity.

About certain registered employees’ apprehensions regarding refunding of deposited fee, he said if anyone wanted refunding, he or she could do it without any hitch.

The secretary said they had not set a specific deadline for submission of registration forms.

He said they would continue receiving the forms and the number of cost effective housing units for federal government employees would be determined on the basis of total number of aspirants.

Replying to another query, he said there was no specific number of housing units to be constructed, however, about ten thousand units would be constructed in the initial stage.

Lehri said the ministry was also focusing on public-private partnership for a chain of housing units. The federal government has launched membership drive for the federal government employees to provide them housing facilities to overcome housing backlog hitting a significant number of employees hard for the last many years. app

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