In line with the direction of the Director General Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Nabeel Javed for adopting zero tolerance against the negligent officials, nine employees have been awarded major and minor penalties under PEEDA Act 2006, pursuant to their suspension early this month.
Competent Authority, the Additional Director General (HQ) LDA has awarded major penalty of `forfeiture of past one year service upon M/s Salman Raza and Tayyab Ali, Assistant Directors Town Planning, Muhammad Amin, Staff officers, Hafeez Ahmad, Nasim Iqbal, Syed Mehtab Ali and Zahur Ud Din, Senior Clerks, LDA. Major penalty of `forfeiture of last three years service has been imposed upon sub-engineer Muhammad Azam Javaid, sub-engineers while minor penalty of withholding of promotion for two years has been upon Naveed Yousaf, sub-engineers (survey).
LDA Director General Nabeel Javed has warned of strict action against the officials involved in using delaying tactics and putting irrelevant objections on applications filed by the people.
He directed all the officials concerned to ensure timely disposal of applications submitted at the One Window Cell of LDA. He has further directed for informing the applicants about objections, if any, on their application in one go instead of causing inconvenience to them by calling them again and again.
