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However, with the current policy being valid up to June 30, 2019, developers, it seems, are not keen on going for licensing regime and have preferred to stay away from the regularisation policy, at last in the industrial hub of the state. He said in the complaint that the developer had not obtained any license and even after being intimated about the illegal colony in writing, GLADA officials failed to take any action to stop the internal development works. Going a step further, Sabharwal charged GLADA officials with being in cahoots with the developer. The unofficial number of illegal colonies in Ludhiana is said to be around 2,500. “The cumbersome procedures, documentation hassles and level of corruption (among staff and officials of regulatory body) are big deterrents in the way of success of these policies,” he had asserted..