HYDERABAD:The Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) has clarified that the social media reports about allotment of plots
to the government officers far below the market rates are unsubstantiated.
The HDA’s spokesman said in a statement issued here on Saturday that
some elements have been maligning the Planning and Development Control
wing of the HDA with regard to the allotment of plots in
Gulshan-e-Quaid Housing Scheme in Kohsar.
“They want to sully the reputation of an important government
department,” he emphasized, warning that such a mudslinging campaign
was tantamount to blackmailing.
He said before the incumbent Director General HDA Fuad Ghaffar Soomro,
who is also Deputy Commissioner of Hyderabad, took the charge a
proposal to allot the plots in Gulshan-e-Quaid housing scheme was
under consideration.
He added that the said proposal was even given a provisional approval
during the stint of former DG HDA Muhammad Sohail Khan.
However, he said, the existing DG on July 29, 2022, soon after taking
charge issued an office order and cancelled the provisional revised
layout plan of that housing scheme.
“The proposal for allotment of plots in Gulshan-e-Quaid to the
employees of HDA and the employees of allied and facilitating
departments, which was processed provisionally, subject to approval
from the competent authority, is hereby cancelled,” reads the office
order.
It further stated that the amount for booking the plots deposited by
the officials should be refunded.
The DG had directed the concerned officials of the HDA that the plots
in Gulshan-e-Quaid should be alloted in accordance with the original
layout plan keeping in mind that the market price was charged in order
to benefit the authority.