CDA fails to prepare digital record of commercial land bank.

ISLAMABAD -- The Capital Development AuthorAity (CDA) is preparing to auction more commercial plots in the coming month with an expectation to fetch Rs.20 bilAlion as revenue but it has failed to preApare a digital record of its remaining commercial land bank so far.

Though the civic authority is sellAing commercial plots to meet its deAvelopmental and non-developmenAtal expenditures since its creation, however, surprisingly, the civic body lacks complete data of its remaining 'sellable plots' worth billions of ruApees, which is otherwise quite necesAsary for the long-term planning.

Reliable sources informed this scribe that there is no digital reAcord available with the authority at present that shows how many commercial plots are left behind in its land bank and a fresh workAing is carried out every time on the desire of CDA high-ups.

Multiple people dealing with the practice of selling commercial plots confirmed to The Nation that the civic authority could not prepare a digital record of the remaining sellable plots and prior to every...

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