PM Khan launches ‘Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme’ in Islamabad
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday launched ‘Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme’ in Islamabad. The mega scheme project will help generate job opportunities and economic activity in the country.
The scheme was launched at an event where Housing and Works Minister Tariq Bashir Cheema, now Ex, Finance Minister Asad Umar and various other government officials were also present.
As reported by Radio Pakistan, one hundred and thirty five thousand houses will be built in the first phase of the scheme.
In the initial phase of the scheme, 110,000 housing units will be constructed in Balochistan for the fishermen of Gwadar, whereas 25,000 units will be built in Islamabad for government employees.
The prime minister said that the plan is to turn the country’s slums into towering high-rises via a revolutionary new construction mechanism invented by the Chinese.
“No one had ever thought of what would happen to the katchi abadis [large urban settlements consisting of hovels]”.
The Prime Minister said, “40 per cent of Karachi’s populace dwells in katchi abadis“.
“He went on to say, “A Chinese company has told me they can make prefabricated homes and build one floor in just one week, so just imagine what they can do for us.”
“We will give them land, they will swiftly construct flats, and all slums will get converted.”
The Prime Minister said that building houses was not feature high on his priority, recounted the sad incident that changed his way of thinking about the early start. He admitted that his first priority was health, education and employment.
“But then I found out about a soon-to-be retiring government employee who was told that the only two ways his family could retain their government residence was if his son got inducted in the same department if he died while still a government employee.” The premiere narrated.
“That man jumped off a building the next day,” the prime minister said, adding that “it was then that I realised how difficult it is for the salaried class to gather funds needed for building houses”.
