LAHORE: The LDA has started a project for implementation of an integrated system for computerisation of its record, including scanning and digitisation of files of more than 80,000 plots in its own housing schemes, at a cost of Rs300m.
LDA Director General Zahid Akhtar Zaman said this while briefing a group of 26 participants of 20th Senior Management Course at the National Institute of Management, Karachi, who visited LDA Office here on Thursday. Zaman said that record of Gulberg, Johar Town and LDA Avenue One schemes was being computerised in the first phase.
All relevant documents from the Revenue Department and other offices will be integrated at one place for ensuring quick disposal of transfer cases and eliminating chances of fraud, he added. He said that land audit of different housing schemes of LDA was under way. As many as 80 plots of different sizes worth billions of rupees situated in five blocks of Johar Town had so far been discovered for which no record of private ownership was available.
After fulfilling legal requirements, the LDA will auction off these plots and spend the money on development projects, he said. He said the LDA had planned to execute the project for widening of Canal Road, including construction of a one-kilometre long underpass at Choubacha Phattak at a cost of Rs5 billion within a period of four months. Expeditious execution of development projects in the city during the recent years by LDA was a precedent to be followed by other departments, he said.
The LDA director general said that in order to eliminate the risk of bogus transfers and protect the rights of buyers, LDA made it compulsory for plot owners to get no-objection certificates (NOCs) from the authority before the execution of any transaction.
