RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) on Tuesday launched an operation against illegal Broha Farm Housing scheme, Murree and demolished five structures, two monuments besides removing 25 illegal electricity connections in the illegal project.
According to a RDA spokesman, the Metropolitan Planning and Traffic Engineering (MP&TE) Directorate, RDA on the directives of Chairman, RDA Tariq Mehmood Murtaza took action in accordance with the law against illegal constructions.
The MP&TE Directorate RDA’s staff including Samiullah Niazi, Deputy Director Planning, Superintendent Scheme and others under the supervision of Director MP&TE carried out the operation as the owner of the illegal Farm Housing project was running illegal booking offices in violation of Punjab Private Housing schemes and Land Subdivision Rules 2010.
The spokesman informed that the Chairman RDA had directed the MP&TE Directorate to take strict action against illegal housing schemes, development, construction of booking and site offices without any discrimination and strict action should be taken against the rules violators.
He said RDA had advised the general public not to invest in any illegal and unauthorized Housing Scheme.
RDA had also requested Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO), Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL) and PTCL, not to extend their services to illegal housing schemes, he added.