New CDA chairman facing challenges to put house in order, control corruption

ISLAMABAD: It will not be an easy going for the new Chairman of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) Captain (r) Muhammad Usman Younas who assumed his office, a little over two weeks back as the federal capital and CDA itself is facing multi-dimensional challenges in different areas. The challenges the new CDA boss will have to address corruption in directorates of Land, Building Control, Maintenance, Enforcement and other formations of the authority along with timely completion of on-going road development projects and residential sectors. The federal capital started developing over 60 years back but this unending process of development process is still going on.
Some development activity took place when it comes to construction of new principal roads and expansion and rehabilitation of existing ones but development of new residential sectors remained a dream which is yet to be materialised. What to talk about development of new residential sectors, the civic body failed in safeguarding investments and rights of small investors and those who wanted to construct their own houses in future as the Land Directorate of CDA refused to issue transfer letters of five marla and seven marla plots in sectors I-12, I-14 and other sectors. Most of these plots were purchased by small investors from entitled affectees in return for their genuine claims. Most of these plots were purchased by bona fide purchasers, and were transferred by the Land Directorate itself on more than one occasion. But suddenly, the Land Directorate started declaring those plots as bogus leaving small investors with no choice but to wait for the CDA board to take some concrete decision to address their miseries. -PNP