PTI govt creates enabling environment for promotion of housing sector in country: SAPM

News Desk

The government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has created an enabling environment for the promotion of housing sector in the country.

This has been stated by the Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Political Communication Shahbaz Gill while addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Friday.

Shahbaz Gill has said that the mortgage financing facility introduced by the government will enable the people to build and own affordable houses. He said a peri-urban housing scheme is being launched in Punjab from next month.

The Special Assistant has said that in the first phase, this scheme will be executed on a land of three thousand kanal in twenty six tehsils of the province. He said under this project, houses will be provided to the low income groups on easy installments.

“The total cost of a house in this housing scheme will be 1.4 million rupees,” he said, adding that the peri urban housing project will be expanded to all tehsils of Punjab.

SAPM has said that work on another housing project will also be started in Farash Town, Islamabad next month. He said four thousand apartments will be built in it and each apartment will cost 2.7 million rupees.

“The journalists will also be given apartments in this housing scheme which is meant for low income groups,” he added.