Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The eighteenth meeting of the CDA Board was held at the CDA Headquarters on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Chief Commissioner Islamabad Muhammad Ali Randhawa. The meeting was attended by CDA Board Member Admin Talat Mahmood, Member Finance Tahir Naeem, Member Engineering Syed Nafast Raza, Member Planning and Design Dr. Khalid Hafeez, Member Environment Asfandyar Baloch and other senior officers, while Professor Dr. Muhammad Ali also attended the meeting. In the eighteenth meeting of the CDA Board, approval was given to allocate sites for the construction of model cemeteries at Jaba and Pandorian in the federal capital Islamabad. Chairman CDA Muhammad Ali Randhawa directed that spacious funeral halls, ablution rooms, public toilets, adequate parking, hearse and ambulance facilities, as well as CCTV surveillance facilities should be provided in the model cemeteries. He directed that a website and web portal of the model cemetery be created so that the relatives, especially overseas Pakistanis, can monitor the graves of their loved ones. In the CDA board meeting, it was decided to adopt the OGRA and government policy regarding LPG storage and filling plants in the federal capital Islamabad and the changes made in them from time to time. The meeting also decided to establish a committee to conduct a detailed review of the amendments to the ICT Building Control Regulations 2023. Amendments related to the promotion of green infrastructure, rooftop/vertical gardening and landscaping in the Islamabad Building Regulations 2023 were also approved in the eighteenth meeting of the CDA board. These amendments will help promote urban gardening in Islamabad as well as align construction with modern needs and requirements. The 18th meeting of the CDA Board approved the establishment of CDA’s own fuel filling stations through public-private partnership or joint venture. This project will help create a permanent source of income for the institution.
