{"id":90337,"date":"2022-11-30T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=90337"},"modified":"2022-11-30T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:05:44","slug":"ministry-authorization-housing-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ministry-authorization-housing-facilities.html","title":{"rendered":"Housing Ministry seeks authorization to develop housing facilities for govt employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Ministry of Housing and Works has sought authorization to ease the restrictions on the development of housing or hostel facilities for the employees in service of the federal government, according to news published on November 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/housing-ministry-pak-intl-housing-expo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Housing Ministry to organise Pak\u2019 1st-ever Intl\u2019 Housing Expo next month<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the sources, the federal cabinet imposed a ban on the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fgeha-to-launch-new-residential-housing-projects-in-major-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new housing facilities<\/a> for federal employees on January 14, 1995 \u2013 which led to a shortage of accommodations for federal employees. It was also highlighted that the ban on new projects was placed under the plan to monetize the federal government employees\u2019 housing. However, the monetization strategy wasn\u2019t implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data, some 17,496 residential units are available and allotted, whereas almost as many employees are presently listed on the waiting lists. It was also highlighted that one or two-storey quarters on land owned by the government in Sectors G-6, G-7 and F-6 have been built in the 1960s and 70s have long ended up being of practical use and need to be dismantled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this effect, the Ministry of Housing and Works has made the following recommendations to the Secretaries Committee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/housing-ministry-update-fgeha-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Housing Ministry shares update on FGEHA projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Renovation of existing government residences<\/li><li>Elimination of the monetization policy imposed on the construction of new residences\/hostels for federal employees<\/li><li>Establishment of the Urban Regeneration, Human Settlement, and Social Housing Board under the Ministry of Housing and Works by bringing \u2018the Right to Shelter Act, 2022\u2019 before the legislature<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry has made it clear that renewal costs will be borne by various commercialization strategies and the national exchequer will not be burdened with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Ministry of Housing and Works has sought authorization to ease the restrictions on the development of housing or hostel facilities for the employees in service of the federal government, according to news published on November 29. Read: Housing Ministry to organise Pak\u2019 1st-ever Intl\u2019 Housing Expo next month As per the sources, the federal cabinet imposed a ban on the development of new housing facilities for federal employees on January 14, 1995 \u2013 which led to a shortage of accommodations for federal employees. It was also highlighted that the ban on new projects was placed under the plan to monetize the federal government employees\u2019 housing. However, the monetization strategy wasn\u2019t implemented. According to the data, some 17,496 residential units are available and allotted, whereas almost as many employees are presently listed on the waiting lists. It was also highlighted that one or two-storey quarters on land owned by the government in Sectors G-6, G-7 and F-6 have been built in the 1960s and 70s have long ended up being of practical use and need to be dismantled. To this effect, the Ministry of Housing and Works has made the following recommendations to the Secretaries Committee: Read: Housing Ministry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[55124,24652],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-housing-ministry-seeks-authorization-to-develop-housing-facilities-for-govt-employees","9":"tag-ministry-of-housing-and-works","10":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ministry seeks authorization for housing facilities- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ministry of Housing and Works has sought authorization to ease the restrictions on the development of housing or hostel facilities.....\" \/>\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\/ministry-authorization-housing-facilities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ministry seeks authorization for housing facilities- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ministry of Housing and Works has sought authorization to ease the restrictions on the development of housing or hostel facilities.....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ministry-authorization-housing-facilities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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