Slums to be regularized; construction work on “Naya Pakistan Housing Programme” to begin next month: PM Imran

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday unveiled the government’s plan to regularize slums across the country, also said the construction work on “Naya Pakistan Housing Programme” would go underway in April 2019.

In his address at the International Housing Conference in Islamabad, Imran Khan said under the housing project to be launched next month, five million housing units would be provided to the low income segments of the society.

The prime minister said constructing five million houses was a cumbersome task but once initiated the number of houses to be constructed would be increased every year. He said the project would directly benefit 40 different industries related with the construction business.

Imran Khan said the houses would be constructed by the private sector, and the government would fully facilitate it.

The prime minister said affordable houses would be constructed in the tribal districts through micro-financing.

Meanwhile, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed between Pakistan and the World Bank for cooperation in housing sector.

The prime minister said the World Bank itself decided to support the housing project. He said positive response had also been received from overseas Pakistanis besides Chinese and Malaysian companies for the project.

In addition, he said the government was also going to launch a plan to regularize slums in different cities including Islamabad. He said houses, flats and commercial centers would be constructed by developers following the models of Turkey and India.

The premier said new construction in urban centers would be vertical to avert threat to food security. He said the task force would learn from Singapore Model about it.

Imran Khan said the government also planned to establish a land bank retrieving land from land grabbers and also the dead capital of government departments. He said land worth Rs 500 billion had so far been recovered from the land grabbers. He, however, clarified that the houses of the poor people would not be demolished under that campaign.

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