Crackdown on unregistered housing schemes launched

MANSEHRA: The Tehsil Municipal Administration has launched a crackdown against illegal, unregistered and private housing schemes and towns.

“Almost all housing schemes and towns being developed or selling files are unregistered, and unapproved by the district scrutiny committee headed by the Deputy Commissioner,” Mazhar Muzaffar Awan, the tehsil municipal officer, told reporters here on Sunday.

He said that a crackdown was launched against the housing schemes and towns as almost all of them were fleecing money from innocent people through fake allotment letters

and files.

“We have sealed offices and also lodged the FIR against the Paradigm City Housing scheme which didn’t acquire land, but started selling plots through files,” Awan said.He added that the people should avoid buying plots from all those housing schemes.

“We have made public names of all 14 private housing schemes and towns in tehsil and initiated legal proceedings against them,” Awan said.The TMO said that influential land grabbers were also involved in launching those so-called towns and housing schemes and deprived people of their hard-earned money.

He said that his department also initiated legal formalities for the arrest of those running such fake and unregistered housing schemes and towns.“The provincial government promulgated the KP Private Housing Scheme Management and Regulation Rules 2021 and we have served notices to unregistered and unlicensed schemes underneath it,” he added.