private company will construct low-cost housing scheme at Taiser Town on no profit no loss basis to provide living facilities to the citizens on affordable rates. The important thing of this scheme is that these houses will be earthquake resistant. It was stated by the City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal while inspecting a model house constructed by the private company at Taiser Town.

He said that the outer development works at Taiser Town Housing Scheme Phase-I would be completed by December, 2007 where 24,762 plots of 80 square yard were already allotted to the citizens, he said and adding that the draws of 30,000 plots of 120 square yards in Phase-II would soon be conducted.

To facilitate the loan, the city nazim said that the city government would also provide help to the allottees of 80-square yard at Taiser Town for getting loan from HBFC and other banks in easy Instalments. For the low-cost housing project, Mustafa Kamal informed the newsmen that the US Company, Sarid, Inc and other 10 companies had offered the city government to construct “Affordable Housing Project” at Taiser Town.

For this purpose, the US Company had built a model house so that the allottees could see it. “It will optional and on the will of allottees that they want to construct their houses through company or not. There is no binding and all allottees are allowed to construct houses on their own. But the city government has facilitated them to construct safe and comfortable house through company that will be available from Rs 300,000 to 350,000 which are less than 40 per cent rates from other housing scheme in the city”, the city nazim maintained.

Highlighting the silent feature of the project, the Project Director Of US Sarid, Inc. Javed Sultan said that the consumption of the time and cost was very low in this scheme and a house would be built in 3 to 4 weeks at an estimated cost of Rs 600 per square feet. “The structure specification is that a comfortable house will be built with insulated walls with U-value of 12 which will provide cool in summer and warm in winter. Besides, use of fan or mechanical cooling, is not anticipated. The tiled floors will be constructed in rooms, bathroom and kitchen. Rest of spaces will be sealed concrete. Paint and plaster will be executed at interior and exterior walls’, he said.

Sultan said that the company had designed earthquake resistant structure with UBC-Zone 3(designed for ground acceleration of .3g). The scheme would be built from 100 per cent local material with extensive use of soil cement technology, he added. The company would build house on ground floor with 2 rooms, bathroom, kitchen, dining area and internal courtyard, however, another floor would be in option, he said.

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