PHATA's capacity building plan devised: minister

Housing and Urban Development Minister Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed has said that a comprehensive programme 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 organizational reforms process. He stated this while presiding over board of directors meeting of PHATA on Tuesday. 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.

Rasheed said 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.