{"id":52055,"date":"2019-05-13T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=52055"},"modified":"2019-05-13T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:22:32","slug":"cda-begin-weekend-monitoring-prevent-expansion-slums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cda-begin-weekend-monitoring-prevent-expansion-slums.html","title":{"rendered":"CDA to begin \u2018weekend monitoring\u2019 to prevent expansion of slums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to initiate weekend monitoring cycles in order to prevent the expansion of slums in the city, a news source reported. CDA spokesperson Safdar Shah has stated that as per the civic body\u2019s observations, most illegal constructions are built over the weekends: the timeframe in which the authority cannot monitor their developments.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cities-witnessing-mushroom-growth-of-slums-illegal-constructions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cities witnessing mushroom growth of slums, illegal constructions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to curtail this activity, Shah added that the CDA has decided to assign officials of the enforcement team at the city\u2019s slums during the weekends\u2013in order to prevent these encroachments from arising. He said that the inspectors and supervisors assigned in these locations will take immediate action to remove the constructions before their completion.<\/p>\n<p>Several reports indicate that there are almost 42 slums in Islamabad, at present. The CDA, over the years, has resorted to various courses of action to resolve the issue of their expansion, but all these efforts have largely met with failure. Meanwhile, the residents of these slums continue to live without basic life facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cda-constitutes-committees-to-identify-building-violations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDA constitutes committees to identify building by-laws violations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the CDA issued a statement specifying that it would now strictly monitor different areas of the city to check the expansion of slums. The authority\u2019s assigned teams continued to work throughout the weekend, and demolished a number of illegal constructions that were nearing completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to initiate weekend monitoring cycles in order to prevent the expansion of slums in the city, a news source reported. CDA spokesperson Safdar Shah has stated that as per the civic body\u2019s observations, most illegal constructions are built over the weekends: the timeframe in which the authority cannot monitor their developments. Read:\u00a0Cities witnessing mushroom growth of slums, illegal constructions In order to curtail this activity, Shah added that the CDA has decided to assign officials of the enforcement team at the city\u2019s slums during the weekends\u2013in order to prevent these encroachments from arising. He said that the inspectors and supervisors assigned in these locations will take immediate action to remove the constructions before their completion. Several reports indicate that there are almost 42 slums in Islamabad, at present. The CDA, over the years, has resorted to various courses of action to resolve the issue of their expansion, but all these efforts have largely met with failure. Meanwhile, the residents of these slums continue to live without basic life facilities. Read:\u00a0CDA constitutes committees to identify building by-laws violations On Saturday, the CDA issued a statement specifying that it would now strictly monitor different&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11623],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-cda-to-begin-weekend-monitoring-to-prevent-expansion-of-slums"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CDA to begin \u2018weekend monitoring\u2019 to prevent expansion of slums - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to initiate weekend monitoring cycles in order to prevent the expansion of slums in the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cda-begin-weekend-monitoring-prevent-expansion-slums.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CDA to begin \u2018weekend monitoring\u2019 to prevent expansion of slums - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to initiate weekend monitoring cycles in order to prevent the expansion of slums in the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cda-begin-weekend-monitoring-prevent-expansion-slums.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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