Summary:
It is an established fact that little or no regulatory measures against the violations have led to a situation where illegal change of land use has rather become a routine rather than exception in most colonies under the administrative control of the Trust. Amidst thousands of cases of such violations (mostly illegal CLU), follow up action has not been taken against even a single allottee till date,” he maintained. Sabharwal further charged the LIT officials with deliberately scuttling the one time settlement (OTS) policy introduced by the Punjab government for a period of three months. However, the laxity on the part of LIT authorities scuttled the objectives of the policy and SCF owners did not come forward to get CLU regularised. Stipulated charges for CLU be recovered from owners of such properties where CLU was permissible and the officials/field staff of LIT responsible for overlooking brazen violations be proceeded against as per law, he added..