Islamabad: PHA gets NOC for housing scheme

[Naveed Yaseen]

ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has issued a no-objection certificate (NOC) to Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA), enabling the latter to launch a housing scheme in a Kurri Road area for the BPS-17 federal government officers of various occupational groups.

The PHA has started housing schemes in various cities under Prime Minister’s Housing programme aimed at providing houses or flats to the needy, government employees and general public at affordable cost.

Under this programme, one million housing units will be constructed annually to address the housing problems of people to a great extent.

According to a survey, there is a need of 71 to 80 million housing units to accommodate homeless people in the country. app

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