Check a Multan Housing Scheme on MDA's Lists: 61 Approved, 184 Illegal

Plot dealers on the Bosan Road, the Northern and Southern Bypass and the Old Shujabad Road often say a scheme is "MDA approved". The lists let you test that claim in about five minutes. We downloaded all three files from the MDA private housing page and counted every line. The numbers below are our own counts.

MDA lists 61 approved schemes and 184 illegal ones in Multan

MDA's approved list has 61 private housing schemes and land sub divisions, 35 in the North Zone and 26 in the South Zone. Its illegal list has 184 names. A further 165 sit on three "under approval" lists, so they are not approved.

An LSD, or land sub division, is a smaller layout that splits land into plots. It goes through the same MDA approval as a housing scheme, so the same check applies.

Check a Multan scheme in five steps

Search the scheme name on all three MDA files, then match the mouza and the road with your sale papers. A mouza is the revenue village where the land sits. A match on the approved list, with the same mouza, is the only result that means approved.

1. Open the MDA website and go to the Private Housing / Land Sub Division page.
2. Open the approved list. It gives the name, mouza, location, area in kanal and date of sanction.
3. Open the illegal list. It is in Urdu, with the colony name and its location.
4. Open the under approval file. It holds the provisional, technical and preliminary lists.
5. Compare the mouza and road on your file or allotment letter with the list line. If the name is only on an under approval list or the illegal list, do not pay a token.

Then check the plot itself. Before you sign, run the checks on the registry and the seller, because an approved scheme does not make every plot in it clean.

Some names appear on more than one MDA list

The same or a similar name can sit on the approved, under approval and illegal lists at once. Green Avenue LSD is on all three. That is why the mouza, the road and the area matter more than the name on a brochure.

Extensions are the usual trap. A first phase can be approved while the land next to it, sold under the same name, is not.

The largest approved schemes are on the Public School and Bosan roads

Royal Orchard (Extension) on the Multan Public School Road is the largest approved scheme, at 3,190.25 kanal. Buch Executive Villas (Extension) on the Bosan Road is next at 2,191 kanal. The oldest approval on the list dates from 1997.

• Royal Orchard (Extension): Durana Langana, 3,190.25 kanal, sanctioned 24 May 2018. Royal Orchard HS, 1,200 kanal, 13 August 2020.
• Buch Executive Villas (Extension): Buch Khusro Abad, 2,191 kanal, 11 December 2020.
• Citi Housing Private Ltd: Lutf Abad, Bosan Road, 1,898.63 kanal, 24 January 2020.
• Buch Villas Extension-I: 1,829 kanal, 19 January 2017; Buch Villas HS, 1,330 kanal, 24 June 2019.
• MDA Officers Cooperative Housing Society: M. A. Jinnah Road, 937.76 kanal, 1997 and 2000.
• South Zone: Omega City HS, 642.88 kanal; Fine City HS, 634.78 kanal; Fahad Town HS, 500.91 kanal.

Buying in an illegal Multan scheme carries legal risk

MDA's notice says no building is allowed in illegal schemes and no roads, water, power, gas or sewerage will be provided there. It says illegal buildings will be removed and an FIR filed under section 34 of the Punjab Development of Cities Act 1976.

The notice adds that MDA is not responsible for any sale or purchase in an illegal scheme, and that dealers often sell plots and files there. It also warns marketing companies not to advertise a scheme without its MDA approval or NOC. The penalty it lists is jail, a fine of Rs 200,000 a day, or both.

Illegal schemes cluster along the Southern Bypass, the LMQ Road, the Piran Ghaib Road and the Suraj Miani Road. Many lines are simply "unnamed land sub division" with an owner's name in brackets, so a dealer may give it any name.

Eleven schemes were moved off the illegal list

MDA's note lists 11 colonies that were on the illegal list before. A District Council Multan letter of 8 September 2025 says they were passed by the council or have applied for approval. They include Nayab Garden, Nayab Grace City, Green Smart City, Millennium City, Gulshan-e-Mehmood and Gulberg Valley. Moved off the illegal list does not mean on the approved list, so ask for the approval letter.

Mortgaged plots cannot be sold until MDA releases them

When a scheme is approved, the developer pledges part of its plots to MDA until roads and services are built. MDA publishes those mortgaged plot lists. Do not buy a plot from them until MDA issues a redemption notice.

MDA's mortgage page lists plots in Dream Gardens, Dream Cottages, Hateem City, New Crystal City and Shah Jahan Canal View. On 6 May 2026 it posted the redemption of 10.29 kanal in Dream Cottages and 38.89 kanal in Revised Dream Gardens, both in Mouza Kotla Abul Fatah on the Askariya Bypass Road.

For other Punjab cities, the same check works with the LDA lists for Lahore, the RDA lists for Rawalpindi and the FDA list for Faisalabad. The tax value of a Multan plot is in the FBR valuation table for Multan.

Common questions

How many housing schemes are approved by MDA in Multan?

MDA's approved list has 61 private housing schemes and land sub divisions: 35 in the North Zone and 26 in the South Zone.

How many illegal housing schemes are there in Multan?

MDA's illegal list names 184 schemes and land sub divisions. A note on the same file moves 11 more off the list after a District Council letter.

Is a provisionally approved scheme safe to buy in?

It is not approved yet. MDA keeps 120 provisionally approved schemes on a separate list from the 61 sanctioned ones. Wait for the sanction, or buy only with the risk understood.

Where is the MDA illegal housing scheme list?

On mda.punjab.gov.pk, under Private Housing / Land Sub Division. The illegal list is a scanned Urdu notice of four pages.

Is Royal Orchard Multan approved?

Yes. Royal Orchard HS, 1,200 kanal, and Royal Orchard (Extension), 3,190.25 kanal, are both on MDA's approved list in Mouza Durana Langana.

What does LSD mean on the MDA list?

Land sub division: a smaller private layout that divides land into plots. It needs MDA approval like a housing scheme.

How we verified this

What we checked and where we read it.

Last checked 15 November 2026. We downloaded the three files on MDA's Private Housing / Land Sub Division page: the approved list (dated on the page 26 September 2025, two scanned pages), the illegal list (26 September 2025, four scanned pages in Urdu) and the under approval file (10 October 2025, seven pages holding the provisional, technical and preliminary lists). We also read MDA's mortgage plots page. All files are scans, so the counts and names above are our own reading of them. MDA's Urdu notice tells buyers to check a scheme's legal status at its Urban Planning directorate or on its website before buying.