Work on Bhara Kahu housing project to start soon: Kakar

[LahoreEstate]

ISLAMABAD: Housing and Works Minister Rehmatullah Kakar on Wednesday said work on Bhara Kahu housing project, being executed under Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF), would be initiated soon.

“The ministry has made all arrangements to launch the first phase of Bhara Kahu housing project,” he said.

He said about 3,000 kanals of land in Bhara Kahu had been purchased where 15,000 flats/plots would be allotted to the government employees, general public and journalists.

Kakar said 5,000 units, out of 15,000, would be allotted to registered applicants, adding that so far around 18,000 government employees had got themselves registered with FGEHF.

He said allotment would be made on ‘no profit, no loss basis’. About two percent quota each has been allocated for journalists and non-journalists in all federal government schemes across the country.

Kakar said the present government, from day one, started short- and long-term projects to overcome housing shortage. Soon after taking the charge, the government announced to construct one million houses across the country under Prime Minister’s Housing for All Programme, he said.

He said around eight million more housing units were needed in the country to meet shortage of houses and 30,000 to 500,000 houses were being constructed on annual basis.

He said 100,000 to 200,000 houses were being constructed in private sector while the rest were being built by the government.

He said construction of houses had started in Sectors G-10, G-11 and I-11 in Islamabad and was also underway in Gulshan-e-Maymar Scheme 23 in Karachi, Hayatabad in in Peshawar, Federal Colony in Lahore and along Chaman Highway in Quetta.

He said construction of houses in Sector G-13 would start within a month. app

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