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He said the objective was to curb the proliferation of new unlicensed colonies and to save the gullible public from falling in the traps of unscrupulous developers. At the same time, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has been asked not to grant new electricity connections to residents in unauthorised colonies. “We have also written to the officials of the PSPCL of these districts not to issue new electricity connections to residents in the unauthorised colonies,” he said. Confirming this, the PSPCL Chief Engineer/Central Zone said as the decision of the state government, all restrictions on issue of new power connections under domestic category had been withdrawn. The GLADA Chief Administrator, Parminder Singh Gill, told The Tribune that a list of 979 unauthorised/illegal colonies that fell in the jurisdiction of GLADA had been sent to the deputy commissioners of Ludhiana, Ferozepur, Moga, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and Jalandhar (for Phillaur tehsil only) asking them not to register title deeds of unlicensed colonies..