SAS Nagar, October 24
The Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) has decided to go ahead with infrastructural development of Sectors 79 and 80 and to give possession of plot in these sector to the allottees by March, 2003.
The Additional Chief Administrator, PUDA, today held a special meeting with planners and engineers concerned. It was decided in the meeting that laying of basic infrastructure in these two sectors would begin immediately as PUDA has clear possession of land that was to be developed in these two sectors.
However, in Sectors 77 and 78, 60 acres of land, in various scattered pockets, was still under litigation and no development work could be undertaken by PUDA there, sources said.
The ACA, PUDA, Mr Yashvir Mahajan, said, “We are facing difficulties in implementing development plans in some sectors, but we have got chunks of land which are free from litigation and these can be developed into plots.” And what about the people whose land falls in the areas under litigation? “PUDA stands by its commitment to provide these people with plots at the earliest,” he said.
“Sector 76, which has 200 acres of land, has been allotted to members of the Radha Soami sect in exchange for their 220 acres of scattered pieces of land in various places in SAS Nagar. The sect has been charged Rs 2 lakh per acre as external development charges by PUDA, sources said.
