LAHORE – As reported by a news source on the 22nd of December, the amount needed to initiate the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project has been finalized. As prepared by the Ravi Urban Development Authority, the total cost for the first phase of development is estimated to be PKR 939 billion; the amount also includes [...]

LAHORE – As reported by a news source, the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director-General Ahmed Aziz Tarar inspected numerous private Lahore housing schemes to review the implementation of society maps. Among the other directives disseminated by the Lahore High Court and the Judicial Water Commission, the DG also inspected the dimensions of the roads and [...]

ISLAMABAD – As reported by a news source on the 22nd of December, the government has disclosed its decision to set up a Drone Regulatory Authority as a means to surveillance and regulation within various fields. The Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry discussed the practicality of this newly-organized authority with Prime Minister Imran [...]

KARACHI – As reported by news sources, chairman of Association of Builders and Developers (ABAD) Fayyaz Ilyas implores the federal government to acknowledge the sudden increase in price of building materials such as steel and cement. The chairman stated that the price hike would severely restrict the progress the government is trying to make in [...]

ISLAMABAD – According to a news article from the 27th of December, the Municipal Corporation Islamabad (MCI) will begin the process of collecting property taxes from both rural and urban areas situated within Islamabad. This procedure follows the decision made by Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in making the MCI [...]

KARACHI – According to a news source from the 24th of December, the Malir Development Authority (MDA) has disclosed the development progress of New Malir Housing Scheme to be completed by 90%. The Additional Director General (ADG) Abdul Nasir also stated during a briefing held on the 23rd the civic body managed to retrieve 1,200 [...]

MULTAN – As reported by a news source on the 24th of December, the Multan Development Authority (MDA) has finalized its survey of housing schemes within the city and concluded that the majority of schemes have been set up illegally. Out of 200 schemes observed, only 18 were found to have gone through the proper [...]

LAHORE – As reported by a news source on the 23rd of December, the Punjab Information Technology (PITB) has decided to observe the pace of all uplift schemes through its ‘Smart Monitoring of Development Project’ online service. As revealed from the details shared, the PITB has recently shifted the collective workload of the Planning and [...]

RAWALPINDI – The Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad rejected the proposal suggested by the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) to shrink the distance covered by Leh Expressway, as reported by a news source. The original cost for building Leh Expressway was estimated to be approximately PKR 80 billion, which also included the construction of roadways on [...]

RAWALPINDI – Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) chairman Tariq Mehmood Murtaza has asked the chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Muhammad Saleem Baig to stop channels from airing advertisements for illegal housing societies. A spokesman for the civic body informed on Monday about the RDA chairman’s efforts to delegitimize the unregistered housing societies by [...]