The Tribune: Ludhiana: Sunday,
August 07, 2016.
Even as
illegal change of land use and violation of building bylaws by allottees of
residential and commercial properties in various schemes of Ludhiana
Improvement Trust continues with impunity, a probe by the Vigilance Bureau,
Punjab, initiated into irregularities committed by allottees and possible
connivance of LIT staff has made no headway even after lapse of more than two
years.
Responding to
an application filed by Rohit Sabharwal, president of the Council of RTI
Activists, under the Right to Information Act, the Joint Director Administration-cum-Public
InformationOfficer of the Vigilance Bureau, Punjab, said: “Vigilance inquiry
(5/14) initiated in this regard was still under investigation. Therefore, information cannot be provided as laid down
in Sections 8 (G) and (H) of the RTI Act 2005.”
On the basis
of a complaint filed in May 2013, VB had started an inquiry into the alleged
illegal change of land use, unauthorised construction and modification carried
out by allottees in shop-cum-flats (SCFs) in Block E of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Nagar colony. Besides looking into
allegations, VB was also to probe the charges of connivance by LIT field staff.
The council
had asserted that allottees (of SCFs) had violated terms of allotment letter,
which called for the cancellation of allotment of the properties concerned.
LIT officials
said appropriate action was being taken against defaulting allottees in the
schemes which were being maintained by the Trust at its own level, while they
were in constant touch with the MC for taking note of violations in the schemes
which stood transferred to MC for maintenance under the provisions of the
Punjab Town Improvement Act.
“LIT has
cancelled allotment of more than 50 properties including SCFs. SCOs,
residential flats, shops, booths and two community centres in the past one year
and action as per rules is under way against many more defaulting allottees,” a
LIT official said.
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