Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) secretary on Tuesday informed that compensation of land amounting to Rs. 29,950,642 have been paid to the affectees of Sector E-12.
Briefing the national assembly’s standing committee on government assurances, which met under the chairmanship of Muhammad Afzal Khokar, he said the total amount payable was Rs. 35,614,297, and compensation of Build Up Award (BUP) amounting to Rs. 79,965,461 has been paid out of total of Rs. 98,590,784.
He added that Rs. 5,463,654 on account of compensation of land and Rs. 18,625,323 on account of compensation of Built up Award (BUP) are under process.
He further informed that the reason why development work in Sector E-12 was not started was that the possession of the land could not be retrieved from the affectees as they refused to accept the award and went to the court for redresser of their grievances.
MNA Shahzadi Tiwana pointed out that inherited property has not been carried out yet and compensation of the same has not yet been paid to the affectees.
She also informed that the CDA has not yet completed the acquisition proceeding nor awarded built up award BUP completely as yet.
The committee recommended that allotment of plots against the BUPs to the affectees may be presented of Sector E-12, in the board of CDA to resolve their grievances.
The secretary, CADD informed the committee that compensation had since been paid up to the affectees of the local population residing in Sector E-12.
The standing committee recommended that as and when the agenda item pertaining to discussion on the assurance given by Lt. General (r.) Abdul Qadir Baloch, minister for states and frontier regions, on the floor of the house on 16th August, 2013.
The agenda was raised in reply to a supplementary question raised by MNA Sheikh Salahuddin, whereof, the minister had assured that registration of illegal refugees living in the suburb of Karachi would be carried out.
The meeting was attended by MNAs Abdul Majeed Khan Khanan Khail, Shahzadi Tiwana, Chaudhry Muhammad Munir Azhar, Syed Sajid Mehdi, Malik Ibrar Ahmed and Sardar Muhammad Irfan Dogar, Engineer Usman Khan Tarakai, MNA Nighat Parveen Mir, MNA Zehra Wadood Fatemi and Sher Akbar Khan were also present on the occasion.