WTP Report
ISLAMABAD: National High Authority (NHA) failed to collect rent,lease etc money of over 400 billion rupees from Amenities on both sides of N-5 since 2005 ,which is Loss of national Exchequer due to insufficient performance & Cancellation of Mutation within Punjab.
According to details, there are more than 70,000 Filling/ CNG Stations and Thousands of other amenities established within or outside Right of Way(ROW) such as Hotels, Factories, Plazas, Marriage Halls, Bus Stops, Show Rooms Nurseries etc. All these amenities were never regularized by Right of Way.
NHA is facing miss-management, malpractices and corruption in KP, Punjab, Baluchistan and Sindh provinces in mutation,leases,revenue and others land related cases. Commission mafia in shape of contractors, sub-contractors and NHA officials are involved in looting national strategic institution assets.
The backbone of national communication network is in the hands of inefficient, irresponsible and incompetent bureaucrats from different cadres.
In different mutation cases the Government of Punjab during a Cabinet meeting decided to Cancel the Mutation of NHA within Punjab and issued, Letter Ref No.1059 -2004/46 LR-1 dated Jan 10,2005 of the Secretary (Revenue)Board of Revenue Punjab to District Revenue officers of Multan, Khanewal, Lodhran, Sahiwal, Rahim YarKhan, Bahawalpur, Lahore, Gujranwala, Sheikupora, Gujarat Jhelum, and Rawalpindi, You are directed to ensure that all mutations of ownership sanctioned in favour of the National Highway Authority are immediately cancelled and ownership of Provincial Government is restored in these cases.
Later for unknown reasons Ministry of Communication declared that all fresh leases are under process. This decision were taken in the Cabinet meeting held on 27th September 2006.
Total Length of N-5(G.T Road ) is 1819km from Karachi South end to Torkhum North, out of which 1021 Km Right of Way is located within Punjab. Therefore, the entire Revenue which was to be collected by NHA As per SOP, NHA has to affect recovery from established Amenities from 1999 to date, which is almost 20 years of Revenue @ 7% notified by DCO land value from established amenities facilities on N-5, Minimum Rs. 20,000 per Amenities amounts to Billions of rupees. The NHA Right Of Way (ROW) had to inventories all assets alongside Right Of Way as per instructions of Economic Coordination Committee in 2009.
Despite the favorable decision for NHA in W.P 898/2005 Decision of Punjab Government was set aside but NHA officials deliberately never provided back up (Brief of Finance Wing of NHA) dated July 9,2007.(To be continued)
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