Housing units for government servants in all provincial capitals: Safwan

Ministry of Housing and Works would soon initiate construction work on new housing units for federal government employees in the provincial capitals. Federal Minister for Housing and Works Syed Safwanullah told APP here Sunday.
He said construction work on about 308 housing units has already been kicked off in Karachi. While a similar project would be initiated in Punjab metropolitan for the FG employees from Grade-1 to Grade-16 on ownership basis, he added.
The minister said this facility would also be extended to other two provincial capitals of the country.
He said these housing projects would be initiated in collaboration with the Provincial and District governments and the FG employees would be able to get loans from the House Building Finance Corporation.
These houses will be constructed over the next five years in the four provincial capitals, he added. He said the step has been taken to overcome the existing housing backlog in the country. Safwan said the number of FG employees throughout the country stood at 386,000 against 22,000 housing units.
He said in the current budget, the government has announced construction of 250,000 houses for low income employees in the federal and four provincial capitals.
Referring to housing facility in Islamabad, the minister said the construction work on a housing complex comprising 5,000 residential units for the Federal government employees would be initiated soon.
He said it would be the first phase of low cost housing units to be built in the Federal Capital. A chain of about 37,000 houses for the low-paid FG employees on ownership basis would be built in the Federal Capital, he added.