Altaf Hamid Rao
MIRPUR (AJK): (Parliament Times) Mirpur Development Authority here on Monday announced to revive the allotments of several hundreds of residential plots in various housing sectors in the Municipal jurisdiction of Mirpur city – which were lying in dole drum for past about 35 years because of their cancellation during the previous regimes on different grounds.
“The sitting AJK government , under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan, had ordered for the revival of the allotment of the cancelled plots in various housing sector of Mirpur city on the orders of the Supreme Court of Azad Jammu Kashmir”, said Ch. Ejaz Raza, Director General of Mirpur Development Authority (MDA) at a news conference at Kashmir Press Club here on Monday.
The DG MDA was flanked by the Legal Advisor to MDA Ch. Muhammad Jameel Advocate and President District Bar Association Mirpur Mirza Qamar uz Zaman Advocate and other officials of the MDA on this occasion.
Our Special AJK Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao reports from Mirpur that Ejaz Raza elaborated that the sitting AJK govt-formed Fayaz Abbasi Commission on the allotment of several hundreds of plots, allegedly allotted in ambiguity in the past, had sent his recommendations to the Supreme Court of AJK seeking revival/regularization of the allotments of such plots located in various housing sectors in Mirpur city. The plots, it may be added, were formerly allotted by the city Municipal Corporation authority, on different grounds including on occupation and possession basis to the concerned occupants, possessors etc, he added.
The DG MDA made it clear that those plots allotted in the places of public utilization including those meant for parks, graveyards, mosques, schools or other places would continue stand cancelled.
Ejaz Raza said that the MDA would start serving the notices of regularization to all concerned from Tuesday under a phased plan. “At first leg of serving notices of regularization of plots, the allotees of the housing sector of C/1, C/2 and C/3 would be served the notices without any discrimination – under three-pronged strategy. Under the 03-pronged categories, the plots allotted in the places of public utilization will be cancelled in one go. “Whereas the cancelled plots lying in the master plan will be revived instantly”, the MDA chief.
To a question, the Director General Mirpur Development Authority Ch. Ejaz Raza categorically declared that about 30 of the plots which had been allotted by the MDA during previous regimes of the DG Raja Amjad Pervez Ali Khan and Ch. Javed Iqbal at some prime locations of public interest, have been cancelled and these cancelled allotments would not be revived, he added.
To another question, the MDA Chief said that only those plots were being revived which have been recommended for revival by the competent Fiyaz Abbasi commission and under onward orders by the apex court of Azad Jammu Kashmir.
The DG MDA said that a three member committee comprising Presidents of District Bar Association Mirza Qamara Zaman, Mirpur Chamber of Commerce & Industry Ch. Javed Iqbal and Kashmir Press Club Mirpur Sajaad Jiraal has been formed to monitor whole of the process of regularization of the cancelled plots and the disbursement of the revival notices to the concerned allottees in formal public hearing being commenced at the MDA Offices Complex Hall here from Tuesday – July 21, he concluded.