Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Asad Umar Monday submitted a private member's bill with the National Assembly Secretariat, seeking constitutional amendment in Capital Development Authority (CDA) Ordinance, 1960. According to the bill, the amendment is aimed at stopping the civic body from illegal acquisition of ancestral land owned by the dwellers of the federal capital.
Talking to journalists, Umar said that CDA has become a 'white elephant' and there is a need to rein it in or else people who own ancestral lands will have to lose their land, as the ordinance gives ample powers to the authority.
He said that pieces of land are forcibly occupied from the people on the pretext of opening new sectors and then billions of rupees are made. "The CDA is not giving enough compensation to the land owners which can be seen from the outstanding payments, which the civic body are yet to pay to some people despite passage of several years," he lamented. He said when the ordinance was passed in 1960, the CDA acquired pieces of land for building Parliament House, Secretariat, other government buildings and residential sectors, but now there is no such need of this ordinance.