—People from all walks of life praise PM’s Naya Pakistan Housing Programme
ISLAMABAD: A huge demand for the registration form for the newly launched ‘Naya Pakistan Housing Programme’ Thursday crashed the website of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) after it got an overwhelming response from 0.2 million users from 174 countries.
According to NADRA spokesman, the website experienced around 10,000 hits a second, causing it to crash, however, it was restored. In the first hour, over 62,000 forms were downloaded from the website.
Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the launch of the programme a day earlier and vowed to meet the housing shortage of the country by building five million houses in five years. He said that the programme would not only provide affordable shelter but also ensure that the residents get all modern basic facilities of life.
The form available on the NADRA website has been designed to collect data from the applicants and seeks their requirement, price range and location of the house and the number of people who were expected to live in the house. Preference would be given to those who do not have any independent residence in Pakistan and only one person in a family is eligible to apply. An amount of Rs250 will be deposited with every form, and a copy is also acceptable.
The forms can be submitted from October 22 to December 21 at the district offices of the housing programme at Sukkur, Quetta, Gilgit, Muzaffarabad, Swat, Islamabad and Faisalabad.
Moreover, people from every walk of life including politicians, academicians, government employees, farmers, labourers and general public widely hailed the launching of Naya Pakistan Housing Programme by PM Khan and termed it a ray of hope for homeless, poor and ordinary people.
MNA Nasir Khan Musazai told APP that the prime minister has fulfilled yet another promise by launching the first ever mega housing programme for poor people and low-income groups to construct five million houses in the next five years.
“Housing is the basic and fundamental right of every citizen of Pakistan and with the construction of such a large number of affordable houses for ordinary citizens and poor segment of the society, the problem of shortage of housings in the country will be addressed,” he said.
Musazai said construction of such a large number of housing units will generate employment opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people, besides boosting construction-related industries.
Economic and financial expert Professor Dr Naeem Khan highly welcomed the launching of the project and termed it a ray of hope for low-income groups and ordinary people. He said that construction of five million houses in five years is economically feasible, however, huge financial resources and land would also be required for its construction.
Dr Naeem said that people from every walk of life including wood designers, craftsmen, civil engineers, architects, construction companies, cement and marble owners would be largely benefited from this programme.
KP Housing Authority Additional Director Planning Muhammad Yaqoob Khan said that as per KP’s share in the population, around 750,000 houses would be built in different districts of the province under PM’s housing programme during the next five years.
Students, farmers, labourers and others welcomed the initiative saying that the PM had won the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people after launching this project.