HYDERABAD, April 15: DCO Mohammad Sharif Awan announced on Saturday the district had decided to launch a housing society to provide accommodation to its 19,000 employees in grade-1 to grade-20.

The DCO said in the first meeting, which he presided, of district government cooperative housing society, plots would be allotted to employees at cheap rates. The land for the housing scheme would be purchased from the Sindh government, he added.

The DCO formed a committee comprising all the EDOs and taluka mukhtiarkars of the district to identify land on the outskirts of the city and submit its recommendations within a week.

He informed the meeting the cooperative housing society had already been registered as per rules, but made it clear the allottees would have to pay development charges.