ISLAMABAD: For the first time in the country’s history, 600 out of 4,000 apartments will be given to slum dwellers as Prime Minister Imran Khan performed the ground-breaking of the low-cost housing units in the capital’s Farash Town on Thursday. Another 2,000 flats will be allotted to those who had registered themselves under the Naya Pakistan Housing Programme, while 1,600 flats will be sold out on an open market basis by Capital Development Authority (CDA). Prime Minister Imran Khan witnessed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed among the Naya Pakistan Housing Development Authority (NPHDA), Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Frontier Works Organization (FWO), which will jointly carry out the project. Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Imran said that the project aimed at providing shelter to the underprivileged segment of society, particularly the working class and labourers. Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the government was focusing on projects with a target of wealth creation to pay off heavy debt borrowed by the previous rulers.

Source: Pakistan Today April 08, 2021 12:20 UTC