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All files with Zaidi panel, wait in queue!
OVER 20,000 allottees of the LDA are waiting for more than two months now to get the sale deeds of their properties executed. Reason: All property files (around 40,000) available with the LDA have been requisitioned by the Justice (retired) Zaidi Commission inquiring into the procedure followed by development authorities and UP Avas Evam Vikas Parishad (UPAVP) in the allotment of residential plots.
OVER 20,000 allottees of the LDA are waiting for more than two months now to get the sale deeds of their properties executed. Reason: All property files (around 40,000) available with the LDA have been requisitioned by the Justice (retired) Zaidi Commission inquiring into the procedure followed by development authorities and UP Avas Evam Vikas Parishad (UPAVP) in the allotment of residential plots.
The State Government, it may be recalled, had set up the Commission in September last year as a damage control move following the controversy over direct allotment of 28 plots in the Vipul Khand area of Gomti Nagar.
Though the LDA has already submitted over 12,000 files pertaining to allotted residential plots for scrutiny, the Commission, whose tenure has been extended till March 5, 2007 however, is far from convinced. “It (Commission) was unwilling to examine these files till the LDA made available to it property records of all residential plots allotted by it so far,” said an LDA official. Our plea that the move would inconvenience a lot of allottees and affect the department’s functioning adversely failed to cut ice with the probe panel, he said. “But the Commission assured us that once all the records were submitted to it, it would return the same within 3-4 days as it would scrutinising only some of the files on a random basis,” said the official.
Consequently, Secretary LDA RB Yadav has drawn up an itinerary under which six teams of two LDA officials each have been constituted to ensure that files of the entire housing schemes reach the Commission in Allahabad by November 6.
“The process of sending these files has already begun from October 30 and each day we are sending at least 4,000-5,000 files to the Commission,” pointed out a property officer.
His promise that these files would be back latest by November 15, is small consolation for some 20,804 allotees of LDA various housing schemes, who are keeping their fingers crossed for that elusive government order to end their wait.
“This is sheer harassment. We are unable to register the property in our name simply because sloth bears in Bapu Bhawan have not moved the concerned proposal to the authorities to issue necessary orders in this connection,” said Nizamuddin Alam, who has a plot in Mansarovar Scheme of the LDA.
Similar is the grievance of Urmila Gupta, a review officer in the secretariat, who has been allotted plot number 1/366 in Jankipuram Extension Scheme of the LDA.
