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Senate Gives FGEHA 18 Months to Complete Green Enclave-I as Sky Gardens Land Dispute Resurfaces
By Mariam Khan
Real Estate Analyst
4 min read
The Senate Standing Committee on Housing and Works has directed the Federal Government Employees Housing Authority to ensure completion of the long stalled Green Enclave-I housing scheme in Bhara Kahu within 18 months. The scheme was launched in 2009. FGEHA told the committee that negotiations with its joint venture partner have concluded, while board approval is still awaited on cost escalation, and a third party evaluation indicated roughly 52 percent of the work has been completed.
What FGEHA's Own Records Show About This Project
According to FGEHA's own official project page for Green Enclave-I, the housing scheme consists of around 3,375 kanals of land in Bhara Kahu, described by the authority itself as clear and fully in FGEHA's possession, with a contract agreement for construction work already executed and development work under way. This confirms the land ownership question for Green Enclave-I specifically is settled, distinguishing it clearly from the separate land dispute now affecting the neighbouring Sky Garden scheme.
The Sky Garden Dispute Specifically
Development on roughly 2,600 kanals in the nearby Sky Garden scheme has been halted over a dispute concerning whether the land constitutes Shamilaat land, communal land subject to specific legal status under Pakistan's land revenue framework. The National Accountability Bureau has reopened an inquiry into this question, and FGEHA has stated no development will proceed on the disputed land until the matter is finally determined.
Sky Garden's Own Documented History of Land Complications
This is not the first land related complication to affect this specific scheme. Sky Garden, previously named Green Enclave-II, was originally planned on 6,932 kanals of land, with FGEHA beginning acquisition proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, and a Section IV notification issued on 28 May 2014. FGEHA subsequently issued consent letters to registered Membership Drive-I members in 2016 based on that acquisition. However, the notification covering that 6,932 kanal parcel was later cancelled by the Ministry of Interior, after which FGEHA entered into a joint venture agreement with a private partner in February 2018 for a separate 10,000 kanal parcel at Mouza Mangal and Kathar, only for that joint venture partner to fail to provide the land within the agreed timeframe. The current Shamilaat land dispute represents a further, distinct complication layered on top of this already troubled acquisition history.
Why the Cost Escalation Question Still Needs Board Approval
FGEHA's confirmation that negotiations with its joint venture partner have concluded, while board approval on cost escalation remains outstanding, points to a specific, identifiable bottleneck standing between the 18 month completion directive and actual construction proceeding at full pace. Until the FGEHA board formally approves the revised cost structure, the practical terms under which remaining work continues are not yet finalised, regardless of the underlying negotiation having concluded.
What Remains Unresolved
Neither a specific date for the FGEHA board's cost escalation decision, nor a confirmed resolution timeline for the Sky Garden Shamilaat land question, has been established. Given that Sky Garden's land status has already gone through cancelled notifications and a failed joint venture arrangement once before, readers should treat the current NAB inquiry as one further stage in a genuinely prolonged land dispute rather than assume swift resolution.
What This Means for Green Enclave-I Allottees
Allottees in Green Enclave-I now have a specific, Senate directed 18 month completion deadline to track, a meaningfully more concrete commitment than general assurances of progress. Given that development is confirmed under way on land FGEHA itself describes as clear and in its possession, allottees should watch specifically for confirmation of the board's cost escalation approval as the next practical milestone determining whether construction can proceed at the pace needed to meet this deadline.
What This Means for Sky Garden Members and Prospective Buyers
Members and prospective buyers connected to Sky Garden should treat the currently disputed 2,600 kanals as land where no development or allotment activity will proceed until the Shamilaat status question is conclusively resolved, and should independently confirm directly with FGEHA which specific blocks or sections of the scheme fall within this disputed area before making any assumptions about their own plot's status. Given the scheme's documented history of acquisition notifications being cancelled and a prior joint venture arrangement failing to deliver promised land, buyers should treat land title verification for any Sky Garden plot as a genuinely essential step rather than a formality.