According to Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Naya Pakistan Housing and Development Authority (NAPHDA) program has provided at least 250,000 job possibilities in the country.
The prime minister announced this while presiding over a meeting of the National Coordination Committee (NCC) on Housing, Construction, and Development, which was convened to assess progress on existing and new projects.
During the discussion, Prime Minister Imran Khan underlined the importance of cadastral mapping in preventing encroachment and increasing land income and argued that provinces should speed up laws to prevent land-use changes and protect green spaces.
While receiving a briefing from Pakistan’s Surveyor-General, Maj-Gen Shahid Pervez, the premier said that cadastral mapping will help in the development of a genuine land record database and in clearly delineating the demarcation of land, which will prevent illegal encroachments,
Furthermore, he stated that an accurate database will aid in increasing land revenue. Imran Khan added, “Where green vegetation areas are being turned into construction projects, land-use changes need to be controlled.”
He urged the provincial and AJK administrations to swiftly pass legislation to halt land-use changes, claiming that protecting green spaces and agricultural fields is critical for environmental reasons and to ensure food security.
The NCC conference was informed that 90 percent of state lands had been digitalized in Punjab, 96 percent in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and 50 percent in Balochistan under phase-I of the mapping effort.
The head of the Capital Development Authority stated that the CDA had begun collecting fines on encroachers using cadastral maps and that the money collected will be utilized to compensate the masses who had been deceived by unlawful housing organizations.
