Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that there has been a 125 percent increase in the revenue of the National Highway Authority (NHA) and land worth Rs5.18 billion has been freed from encroachment.
In a tweet on Thursday, the premier also congratulated the Ministry of Communications and National Highway Authority for saving public money through transparency and digitisation.
He said regardless of price hike and inflation, the present government has constructed road infrastructure at a lesser rate compared to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government.
Earlier, PM Imran said that with the provision of 12,400 low-cost and quality apartments to residents of Islamabad’s slums for the first time in the country’s history, the government was fulfilling its promise of low-cost housing for the poor and middle classes.
“Loans of Rs38 billion have been provided to people for the construction of their own houses,” the PM said while presiding over the meeting of the National Coordination Committee on Housing Construction and Development.
Federal Ministers Shaukat Tarin, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, AJK Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi, Minister of State Farrukh Habib, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Dr. Shehbaz Gill, State Bank governor, AJK ministers Sardar Tanvir Ilyas, Khawaja Farooq, Naya Pakistan Housing and Development Authority chairman and senior officers attended the meeting.
The meeting was told that the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Naya Pakistan Housing Authority will provide subsidies for the flats in Islamabad to keep the monthly instalments at a minimum level. The flats will have all civic facilities.
The prime minister directed to construct a cricket stadium of an international standard in Islamabad.
He also directed the development of commercial buildings at government residences in Islamabad’s expensive sectors through a public-private partnership.
