The directorate will prepare proper land bank of LDA property in private housing schemes and its disposal through auction. It will also safeguard the public utility sites, reserved for setting up schools, dispensaries, community centres, graveyards and other places of public use in these schemes besides controlling the unauthorised sale of mortgaged plots by taking action against encroachments/illegal occupation.
LDA Director General Ahad Khan Cheema appropriated posts to the newly established Directorate of Estate Management (Private Housing Scheme) from existing strength of LDA budget. It will be manned by one Director Estate Management (Private Housing Scheme), one Deputy Director/Senior Estate Officer EM (General Cadre) and three Assistant Directors/Estate Officers (General Cadre).
Meanwhile, the Authority urged the allotted persons of LDA Avenue-I, who did not yet pay one or more instalments out of the total 12 payment, to deposit the remaining price of their plots by the March 31, 2013. No mark-up or penalty will be charged from them by this date because of the delay in payment on their part. Also, no further extension will be given in this date. LDA reserves the authority for cancellation of a plot after this date in case failure at the part of an allotted person under Section XI of the allotment letter. In case of cancellation of allotment, the price deposited by an allotted person will be returned to him/her after 10 percent deduction in the amount paid by him/her.