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RDA lodges FIR against two housing schemes

By APP
August 06, 2024
A representational image of a residential area in a housing society. — AFP/File
A representational image of a residential area in a housing society. — AFP/File

Rawalpindi:Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has lodged First Information Reports (FIRs) against two illegal housing schemes.

According to a RDA spokesman, the Metropolitan Planning and Traffic Engineering (MP&TE) Directorate RDA lodged FIRs against two illegal housing schemes, in Mouza Massa Kassowal at GT Road and Mouza Bhai Khan Matyal, Tehsil Gujar Khan, District, Rawalpindi. He said, the MP&TE Directorate RDA is taking legal action against the illegal advertisements and marketing of illegal housing schemes.

The spokesman informed that before lodging FIRs, the authority had issued notices to the owners of illegal housing schemes. RDA had warned the rules violators that without getting NOC from RDA for launching the housing schemes, apartment projects, commercial buildings, etc., within the controlled area of RDA, all sorts of advertisement, marketing and development of such projects through advertisement agencies is illegal, he added.

The DG RDA, Kinza Murtaza had directed the MP&TE Directorate to take strict action against illegal and unauthorized housing schemes, constructions and commercial activities, booking offices and encroachments without any discrimination, he added.