PHA Authority

Authority Composition:

The Authority shall consist of:

Powers and functions of the Authority:

The powers and functions are below:

1. facilitate provision of housing inputs, including land, finance, building materials through institutional and legal frame-work and develop indigenous and cost effective approaches;
2. implement parameters of the national housing policy, coordinate and liaise with the Federal Government, District Governments, Tehsil and Town Municipal Administrations, concerned departments and Government Agencies;
3. identify state and other lands for developing low income and low cost housing schemes;
4. facilitate construction of multi storey flats (low cost housing) in collaboration with the District Governments and Tehsil and Town Municipal Administrations by arranging finances from the House Building Finance Corporation, Finance Institutions and commercialized banks for developments;
5. provide cost wise affordable, housing schemes especially for the low income group and families out of the Revolving Fund;
6. facilitate public and private partnership or ventures in housing and development of recreational activities;
7. promote environment for friendly and standardized construction activities;
8. prepare guidelines, long term and short-term plans, for implementing the low cost housing schemes and programmes in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa;
9. facilitate land availability through various innovative measures, develop a comprehensive land information system to cater for the planning and development requirements for a period of five to ten years;
10. mobilize resources and generate funds in order to provide finance for housing especially to the low income group;
11. develop land disposal systems which are unified, transparent and market oriented with open auction policy and exception for special needs;
    [(xi-a) to prescribe mechanism for acquisition of land, on land sharing basis formula;
    (xi-b) deal with the issues relating to rehabilitation and settlement of landless owners in the prescribed manner;
    (xi-c) prescribe mechanism for payment of compensation to the land owners, whose land has been acquired;]
12. develop packages in which prime state land occupied by katchiabady, shall be offered to the private developers for commercial use; provided they arrange finance upgradation or relocation of katchiabady;
13. suggest measures to check growth of slums and katchiabady, formulate resettlement and relocation plans;
14. propose suitable amendments in land acquisition laws to make provisions for unified, transparent and market oriented system of land acquisition;
15. formulate provincial land use policy, plan and prepare regional development plans (Inter District Spatial Planning-Master Plans) for an integrated, coordinated and systematic planning to ensure orderly growth and development of physical infrastructure such as highways, railways, industrial zones,conservation of forest reserves and provision of electricity, telephone, sui gas, etc;
16. plan a comprehensive programme for the development of satellite, intermediate, secondary and industrial towns to reduce migration and drift to big settlements;
17. develop Geographic Information System for efficient land documentation and information related to housing and town planning;
18. provide technical assistance to the District Governments and Tehsil and Town Municipal Administrations towards capacity building in all matters related to housing and town planning
19. coordinate with Federal Government, District Governments and Tehsil and Town Municipal Administrations for implementing the development plans and programmes pertaining to housing and town planning;
20. assist Government Agency to plan/execute Government servants housing scheme, etc. in the areas of low cost housing;
21. formulate policy parameters to ensure liberalization in the existing regulatory measures, and to streamline the affairs of private housing schemes; and
22. perform such other functions as may be assigned to the Authority from time to time by Government.

Minutes of the Authority Meeting: