Lahore Development Authority Thursday retrieved a total of six plots worth millions of rupees in P-block of Sabzazar Scheme during a grand operation against illegal occupants on Thursday.

On directions by Director General Lahore Development Authority Ahmad Aziz Tarar, the staff of the Estate Management Directorate-II of LDA reclaimed the possession of plots No. 550 to 555 block-P after demolishing illegal foundations and boundary walls at the site. 

These plots will now be included in the plot bank of LDA. These properties will be sold through an open auction for revenue generation for development projects.

Moreover, illegally constructed shanties, cattle yard and sheds on another five plots No. 530 to 534 in P-block of Sabzazar have also been removed during the operation.

Eight private housing schemes offices sealed

Estate Management Directorate (Private Housing Schemes) sealed offices of eight approved private housing schemes due to non-execution of transfer and mortgage deeds.

Under the provisions of Private Housing Scheme Rules 2014, Transfer deed has to be executed to safeguard the public utility sites in that scheme while mortgage deed has to be executed to mortgage certain saleable area in Authority’s favour as a guarantee for completing development works in the housing schemes.

The societies where offices had been sealed were OPF Society, Public Health Engineering, Tricon Valley, Sui-Gas Society, Muhafiz Town Phase-I, Pakistan Rajput, Khayaban Quaid and Gulshan Ahbab.