ISLAMABAD: Anti-encroachment drive launched by Capital Development Authority (CDA) is in full swing and would continue till complete elimination of encroachment, Islamabad Mayor and CDA Chairman Anser Aziz said chairing a meeting the other day.
Senior officers of Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) and CDA were also present. While expressing satisfaction over the results of the anti-encroachment drive, the mayor directed the director enforcement to further accelerate the pace of the drive.
He emphasised on coordinated and collaborated efforts for complete eradication of encroachment from the city.
“The business community, particularly traders’ union, needs to join hands with CDA and IMC in anti-encroachment drive,” the mayor said.
On this occasion, director enforcement informed the meeting that anti-encroachment operations were being conducted all over the city without any discrimination.
He said momentum of the drive had been increased. During the first three weeks of May, massive operations were conducted against encroachers and illegal occupants.
He informed the meeting that 144 anti-encroachment operations were conducted during this period and demolished several illegal constructions and encroachments including 39 illegally constructed rooms, 20 boundary walls, three shops, six kiosks, tea stalls, roadside eateries, 10 shacks, 13 fruit and vegetable stalls, 14 building material and scrap depots in addition to the impounding of seven vehicles being used for unauthorised sale of different items.
During these operations, 1,563 encroachment items were also confiscated. The meeting was informed that a gigantic joint operation was conducted in G-8 Markaz where encroachers blocked the pathways, footpaths and verandas of different plazas.
The operation was conducted in collaboration with the ICT administration, Islamabad Police, and representatives of traders union and elected representatives including chairman of the respective union council.
During this operation, pre-fabricated sheets partition, sheds, iron grills, polls, chains, cabins containers from the verandas of various plazas, parking areas, footpaths and paths ways of the plazas were removed.
The meeting was informed that during the above said period 39 illegally constructed or under construction rooms were demolished from different areas including Bari Imam, Sectors I-11/2, G-10/2, G-11/3, G-11/1, H-9, and I-11/4.
Furthermore, 20 boundary walls from the areas along Ibn-e-Sina Road, Bari Imam, Sectors G-11/3, G-11/1, H-9, Motorway Chowk, Sector F-12 and other areas were removed.