600 plot owners in I-12 waiting for new allotments.

Byline: Kashif Abbasi

ISLAMABAD -- Abdul Shah spent his lifetime earnings and savings to purchase a plot in I-12 and got it transferred in his name. But now his plot is nowhere because of the negligence of the Capital Development Authority (CDA).

He is among around 600 people whose plots were deleted by the CDA while revising the layout plan of the sector last year. But CDA after revising the layout plan had not allotted them alternative plots.

Officers of the Planning Wing, which had revised the plan, said the plan was revised because of a nullah and some uneven land. They, however, said in the revised layout plan, new similar numbers of plots had been re-planned to accommodate the owners. They said it was the responsibility of the land directorate to allot the people alternative plots. But the land directorate is yet to take any step to rectify the situation.

Their plots were deleted during revision of I-12 layout plan last year

'I have spent all my life savings to purchase the four-marla plot. I paid some extra amount because I was allotted a corner plot. I am not sure when my plot will be reallocated,' Abdul Shah said, adding these days he also needed money because of the growing expenditures under the Covid-19 pandemic.

'But the CDA has yet to intimate me when it would reallocate me the plot of the same worth and value so that I can sell it,' he said.

Some of the people said they should be allotted alternative plots of the same value and in the same sub-sector, which CDA had re-planned while revising the layout plan.

'The allottees of the corner, three side corner and of double roads locations should be given new plots of the same...