Builders ignore low-income groups, use premises commercially post-approval
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LAHORE:
The government may face hurdles in achieving the objectives of its plan to promote the construction of high-rise buildings because of poor planning, decisions taken in disregard to the ground realities and preferential treatment with those who build expensive apartments over the low income groups.
According to sources, in more than 90 per cent cases, people have taken advantage of the government policy by getting approved the maps and using the places for commercial activities rather than the declared goals of the initiative.
The sources said less than 8% of the applicants had sought approval of major high-rise buildings and work has been started on about half of them.
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