NAB's 'digital one-click' system to curb huge housing frauds

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has proposed a "digital one-click disclosure" system that will allow any residential or commercial plot aspirant to instantly verify the legitimacy of a housing scheme, its approved layout, and the existence of a specific plot, said a report.

- Tariq Butt

In view of massive fraud with citizens by private housing and cooperative societies, the NAB Rawalpindi has prepared a four-pillar reform agenda unveiled to eradicate the widespread fraud and mismanagement plaguing the private housing sector. Initially the reform programme is considered for implementation in Islamabad and Rawalpindi where more than 90,000 citizens lost hundreds of billions that they have paid for plots which never existed.