Daily Times

Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director General Amna Imran Khan has announced that zero tolerance will be observed with the officials involved in corruption and using delaying tactics for redressing public grievance.

She was talking to media during an open court session at the One Window Cell of LDA on Tuesday.

She said that the officers/officials guilty of delaying response on public application will be charged a fine of Rs 100 per day which will be deposited to the Diamer-Bhasha Dam Fund. She further said that the Bank of Punjab will be requested to set up a deposit booth at One Window Cell of LDA for this purpose.

She said that providing relief to the people and solving their problems rank high on the priority agenda of the new government. For this purpose, red-tapism will have to be eradicated and the working environment and culture in LDA needs to be reformed. She directed the officers concerned for simplifying and shortening various Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) being used for disposing off day-to-day work. She further said these SOPs were not “scared scripts” and could be amended in the best interest of public at large. LDA DG Amna Imran Khan revealed that the main reason behind the delay in issuance of no objection certificates to citizens was the incomplete land record at the time of land acquisition for new housing schemes.

Separately, LDA Enforcement Directorate staff conducted an anti-encroachment operation in Green Town and Gulberg. Encroachment items were confiscated and filled in six trucks from Main Market, Green Town, Firdous Market, Gulberg and Gurumangat Road during this operation.

Published in Daily Times, September 19^th 2018.