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Capital Development Authority (Urdu: دارالحکومت ترقی اختیار) or CDA, is a public benefit corporation responsible for providing municipal services in the Islamabad city (Capital city of Pakistan), established on June 14, 1960, first by an executive order issued on June 24, 1960 entitled the Pakistan Capital Regulation, to be superseded by the CDA ordinance issued on June 27, 1960.
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As of 2016, most of the CDA's municipal services and departments have been transferred to the newly created Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation, although the CDA is still in charge of estate management, project execution and sector developments.
History of CDA
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, the last President and Commander in Chief (CNC) of United Pakistan (which comprised East Pakistan & West Pakistan) was designated its first Chairman, when he was a Lieutenant General.
Responsibilities and Services
CDA Model School
The Capital Development Authority developed the CDA Model School in Islamabad in 1970.
Controversies
Since 2014, the CDA has been targeting and demolishing illegal slums who are largely occupied by Christians in Islamabad. The Supreme Court put on hold the demolitions and ordered from the CDA a written justification to it. The CDA's replied that "Most of these katchi abadies [slums] are under the occupation of the Christian community." "It seems this pace of occupation of land by Christian community may increase. Removal of katchi abadies is very urgent to provide [a] better environment to the citizen[s] of Islamabad and to protect the beauty of Islam." Various human rights activists condemned the response.