{"id":70635,"date":"2020-09-18T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=70635"},"modified":"2020-09-17T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:48:09","slug":"punjab-allow-establishment-housing-schemes-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-allow-establishment-housing-schemes-rural-areas.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab to allow establishment of housing schemes in rural areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lahore: The Punjab government recently announced its decision to allow housing schemes to be developed in rural areas \u2014 with the move aimed at containing mass rural to urban migration in the province, according to a news story published on September 16. The Local Government &amp; Community Development Department has issued a formal request to the law department to draft the relevant laws for the purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-housing-schemes-audited.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab housing schemes to be audited<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special Secretary Local Government Babar Aman Babar further revealed that previously housing schemes could only be developed in the urban areas; however, this had led to mass urban migration within Punjab. Now, in order to provide better facilities in rural areas and control the mass migration, the government has decided to allow residential schemes to be developed in rural areas as well. Mr Babar added that this move would also help reduce the pressure of a rising population growth rate within the urban areas of the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/timeline-set-to-issue-noc-for-housing-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Timeline set for NOC issuance, other approvals for housing schemes in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The request to draft the requisite laws for the initiative has already been submitted with the law department, and the process is expected to be completed soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government recently announced its decision to allow housing schemes to be developed in rural areas \u2014 with the move aimed at containing mass rural to urban migration in the province, according to a news story published on September 16. The Local Government &amp; Community Development Department has issued a formal request to the law department to draft the relevant laws for the purpose. Read: Punjab housing schemes to be audited Special Secretary Local Government Babar Aman Babar further revealed that previously housing schemes could only be developed in the urban areas; however, this had led to mass urban migration within Punjab. Now, in order to provide better facilities in rural areas and control the mass migration, the government has decided to allow residential schemes to be developed in rural areas as well. Mr Babar added that this move would also help reduce the pressure of a rising population growth rate within the urban areas of the province. Read: Timeline set for NOC issuance, other approvals for housing schemes in Punjab The request to draft the requisite laws for the initiative has already been submitted with the law department, and the process is expected to be completed soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[39743,39745,39744],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-70635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-notices-announcements","tag-housing-schemes-in-rural-areas","tag-punjab-to-allow-establishment-of-housing-schemes-in-rural-areas","tag-urban-migration","cat-15017-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab to allow establishment of housing schemes in rural areas - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government recently announced its decision to allow housing schemes to be developed in rural areas \u2014 with the move aimed at containing mass rural to urban migration in the province, according to a news story published on September 16.\" \/>\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\/punjab-allow-establishment-housing-schemes-rural-areas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab to allow establishment of housing schemes in rural areas - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government recently announced its decision to allow housing schemes to be developed in rural areas \u2014 with the move aimed at containing mass rural to urban migration in the province, according to a news story published on September 16.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-allow-establishment-housing-schemes-rural-areas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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