ISLAMABAD- Residents of sector F-11/1 Thursday strongly protested against the allotment of plot to a private school in residential area as a clear violation of the original Master Plan of Islamabad. The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has allotted a plot measuring 3 acres to a private school for construction of a 3-storey educational complex in purely residential area in sector F-11/1, Street 8, TheNation learnt on Thursday during a visit to the area. Dwellers of the area recorded strong protest against the Authority's decision and alleged that CDA bosses had accepted bribes for allotting a precious piece of land on throw away price to Gandhara Public School. Moreover, the plot occurs on an incidental green space, allotment of which is a violation of the CDA building bylaws and several court's decisions given from time to time in different cases. Dr M N Rehman, Raja Gulzar Ahmad and M Irshad Khan, residents of the street, have moved Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the allotment of the plot, which has issued a stay order on June 3. However, the school administration has taken over possession of the plot and has set up camp for the construction of the school. Dr Rehman told TheNation that the school, if established, would destroy peace in the area besides posing serious security threats to the dwellers with the heavy inflow of pedestrians and vehicular traffic. "We had purchased costly corner plots for the sake of peacefulness, which CDA was destroying by establishing school and constructing a link road from main double road to the street", he wailed. In addition, he informed, a big network of sewerage pipelines has been laid underground, which would surely be destroyed resulting in stinking the area in filth. "This would make our life miserable rather impossible", he maintained.   He said that a delegation of the the area dwellers, led by Senator Nargis Zaman Kiani, had met CDA Chairman Kamran Lashari and CDA Member (Engineering) Raja Nosherwan, who had promised to look into the matter. But so far the civic agency has taken no concrete steps to address the complaint, he maintained. Moreover, he informed, renowned nuclear scientist Dr Samar Mubarik Mund, whose residency is next to the plot, had also wrote a letter to Lashari, enumerating the various problems the school might create, but to no avail. Dr Rehman has made tremendous job for beautification of the incidental open space, which had mostly broken and undulating features, traversed by a big sewerage nullah, which once gave off bad smell day and night. He has grown vegetables over the plot besides erecting a retention wall and has planted different kinds of trees, which he said, he had brought from Swat, AJK and other areas. I would certainly have spent more than a million for keeping the environment of the area clean and healthy, he claimed. Dr Younis Aqeel, another dweller of the street, informed that the 1960 Master Plan provided for the construction of a water tank on the said plot. He said that the civic agency was violating decisions of the federal cabinet, which restricted CDA from converting ancillary open spaces into commercial plots as well as making any sort of alteration in the original Master Plan without formal approval of the Cabinet. He said that if the plot was sold out for residential purposes through open auction, CDA would certainly had earned more than Rs 700 million against the Rs 70 million, for which the same has been handed over to Gandhara Public School. However, CDA concerned official could not be contacted to comment over the issue despite several attempts.