Times of India: Ghaziabad: Monday,
September 19, 2016.
The Ghaziabad
Development Authority (GDA) is likely to pursue criminal proceedings against
its own officials after records pertaining to residential projects developed
and allotted by it went missing. Senior officials of development authority,
sources said, asked officials in the property department to track the documents
by September 20.
The documents
pertain to a middle income group (MIG) housing project developed in Vaishali in
1990 and an economically weaker section (EWS) housing project developed in
Indraprastha Colony on Loni-Bhopura Road in 2006. The officials have not been
able to track the documents of these two housing schemes, bearing numbers 567
and 847, so far, sources said.
The matter,
according to sources, came to the fore last week after notices were issued to
the development body, seeking certain files pertaining to these two schemes
that have already been allotted after development. Officials claimed that documents
pertaining to Vaishali MIG scheme were sought by the Punjab State Commission
for the Scheduled Castes following a petition by an applicant whose allotment
application had been rejected by the GDA. The applicant alleged that he had not
been allotted a MIG flat owing to irregularities during the draw of lots.
The documents
of the EWS housing scheme were sought by the state information commissioner of
Uttar Pradesh following allegations by an RTI applicant. The applicant has
appealed to the commission that information sought by him from the GDA about
the schemes was not entirely furnished.
At present,
the GDA does not have any information pertaining to the number of flats or
housing units constructed under the two schemes. The details of those who were
allotted flats and housing units through these schemes are also not available
with the GDA.
"All
details about the schemes can only be verified after the records are traced.
Officials of the departments concerned have been directed to trace the records
and documents. A case is likely to be registered against the officials
concerned by police, if the records are not traced by September 20," a
senior GDA official told TOI.
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