CDA board refuses to earmark 44 nursery plots.

Byline: MUHAMMAD ASAD CHAUDHRY

ISLAMABAD -- The Capital Development Authority's board has rejected a summary recommending earmarking of 44 new sites for the establishment of nurseries in the right of ways (RoW) of major roads.

The apex decision-making body of CDA met here on Thursday. According to details, a summary prepared by the planning wing of the CDA has recommended to earmark 44 new plots measuring 4 kanals each for the nurseries in the right of way of the major avenues, which includes the RoW of the Kashmir Highway at Sector H-8/2 and H-9/3 and on the RoW of 11th avenue near NUST university.

Though, the planning wing has recommended earmarking the new nursery plots but did not elaborate the way to dispose of the same plots to private individuals.

However, the board members remained unconvinced over allotment of plots to private nurseries at right-of-ways of Kashmir Highway in H-series and rejected the summary presented by Member Planning and Design.

Sources informed that the summary was rejected with a view that the superior courts had already directed the civic body to clear the RoW and an operation is underway against encroachment.

Secondly, the board was of the view that the allocation of nurseries is the purview of Environment Wing of the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad not the...