ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Development Working Party has approved two projects for the capital police, which would help improve the security situation in the city and ensure a better check and audit control system at police stations.
The meeting of the forum was held while Chairman CDA Amer Ali Ahmed in the chair. According to the officials, during the meeting, two projects for Islamabad police were approved.
They said the projects would help improve the security situation in Islamabad. In this context, the meeting approved Rs 680 million for camera surveillance of the entry points of Islamabad. Besides this, hiring of accounts staff for the capital police stations was also approved.
After this the police stations will function financially independent. “This will also lead to a better check and audit control system at the police stations,” according to the officials.
This step will ensure provision of budget to each police station for the first time and the same will be spent at the police station level.
The Chair directed the concerned officials for an audit of the cameras already installed in the capital city and presented them to the IDWP forum so that linkage can be established on the efficacy of technology and crime control. Development projects under SDG were also approved in the meeting.
Meanwhile, the allottees of sector E-12 have asked the concerned authorities to give heed to their plight.
The office-bearers of the Allottees Action Committee, on behalf of 4430 allottees, have appealed to the Prime Minister to direct the Capital Development Authority to start early development of four sub-sectors of sector E-12 and hand over possession of plots to allottees without unnecessary delay.
The CDA had launched sector E-12 in the year 1989, and allotted about 4430 plots to federal government employees, retired employees, their widows and the general public. Hundreds of plots were purchased by overseas Pakistanis.
There are long tales of agonies of the said allottees for the last 32 years due to non-development of the sector. About 1400 allottees have so far expired due to age factor amid dreams of their own houses.
The CDA Board had approved PC-1 for development of sector E-12 in October, 2019, tenders were invited and development works started in sub-sectors E-12/2 and E-12/3 but it was stopped in June 2021.