PHA receives over 1,30,000 applications for housing units
By Saad Saud

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA) has received over 130,000 applications for various categories of flats/housing units, to be constructed for occupational groups and low income groups of federal government employees.
According to official sources, the PHA had invited applications from officials of federal government employees for submission of option forms from August 31 to September 30 and later the date was extended to October 10.
The PHA has recently been tasked to undertake housing schemes for the officers of Federally Constituted Occupation Groups and forthe low paid employees of the federal government.
The scrutiny of the application has been started and its balloting would be held very soon, the sources said.
These housing unites would be constructed for officials/officers in order of preference of three cities out offour provincial capitals and federal capital.
According to official sources, scrutiny of the application forms would be started after Eid-ul-Fitr and later balloting would be held.
The sources said that a chain of about 37,000 houses for thelow-paid FG employees on ownership basis would be built in the federal capital.
They said that a similar project is being initiated in Punjabmetropolitan for the FG employees from Grade-1 to Grade-16 on ownership basis while such projects would also be initiated in all the four provincial headquarters to meet shortage of housing units for federal government employees.
The FG employees would be able to get loans from the House Building Finance Corporation, they added.
In the fiscal budget 2007-08, the government had announced construction of 250,000 houses for low income employees in the federal and provincial capitals.