Housing and Urban Development Minister Mian Mehmood ur Rasheed has said that a comprehensive program of improving the organizational capacity of Punjab Housing and Town Planning Agency (PHATA) has been devised to speedily complete the Naya Pakistan Housing Projects. This programme would also help to boost the organisational reforms process. He stated this while presiding over board of directors meeting of PHATA here today. Secretary Housing Nadeem Mehbub, DG PHATA Liaquat Chatha, general secretary housing taskforce Atif Ayub and others attended the meeting. Liaquat Chatha presented the report about implementation on decisions made in the previous meeting. The housing minister Mehmood ur Raheed said that finance and accounts, engineering, planning, procurement, communication and IT sections will be further activated and strengthened so that early completion of Naya Pakistan Housing Projects could be ensured. The meeting also gave approval to restoration of different schemes along with increase in duration of construction of homes, start of development schemes under PHATA in different cities and amendments in PHATA service rules. Meanwhile, approval of amended layout plan for construction of apartments and houses under Naya Pakistan Housing Project in Sialkot and Chiniot was also given approval.
