Quetta Development Authority was established in 1978 by the Government of Balochistan.

Quetta Development Authority is responsible to make provision for the development and improvement of certain areas in Quetta District by opening up congested areas, laying out or altering streets, providing public amenities like parks, gardens, and play grounds, executing works for water supply and sewerage or by demolishing, improving or constructing buildings; for the acquisition of land for such development of improvement, including the re-housing of persons affected there by and certain other persons for the preparation and execution of development or improvement schemes, building research schemes and similar other schemes; and for matters connected there with or incidental thereto.