The Special Committee of PAC on Saturday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to submit details of its 22 nursery plot allottees within a fortnight. A meeting of the Committee was held here at CDA headquarters here. Convenor of the Committee, Nadeem Afzal Chan MNA and Noorul Haq Qadri MNA, Chairman CDA and officials of the civic authority attended the meeting.
Chan said the issue of Public Account Committee (PAC) was not eight nurseries allotted along Park Road but the committee wants to know about the status of all 22 nurseries owned by CDA and allotted to various persons. Chairman CDA said that the department has finalised a plan to re-auction the land leased out to nurseries. He told the committee that the civic authority's board had approved a policy for auctioning nursery plots on an open auction basis in which the highest bidder would be given licenses for 10 years to set up nurseries there.
He said the CDA, following PAC's directions, had terminated the 30-year lease of eight nurseries and they were operating on one-year licence. The PAC had found irregularities in the extension of lease of eight nursery plots on Park Road near Chak Shahzad.These nurseries are paying Rs 11,718 per acre per annum rent, which was Rs 9,375 during 2007-2010.
Chan directed CDA to provide a copy of minutes of meeting of the Board of Directors which allotted nurseries. Chan observed that the CDA had not followed the rules while extending the lease periods. The committee had found that in 2009, the CDA had renewed the leases of eight out of the 23 plots for 30 years without inviting bids. The CDA chairman answered the land had been leased in good faith, and the CDA had started leasing out land in the early 70s but the irregularities in leasing out the plots had occurred for lack of a policy in this regard.
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