LDA DG takes action on waste of funds, Johar Town plots scam.

LAHORE -- Commissioner Muhammad Ali Randhawa, who also holds charge of the office of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) director general, has appointed director (development) as inquiry officer to probe reconstruction of 'new roads' in Johar Town and other issues involving alleged waste of public funds.

Mr Randhawa has also transferred the Directorate of Housing (VII) director for not giving allegedly important records related to the forged files of a number of Johar Town plots to a fact-finding committee and the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Dawn has learnt.

'The director (development) based at the office of the Lahore Commissioner has been tasked with the probe into the reconstruction of the newly built roads allegedly by the LDA in Johar Town - Shadiwal Chowk to Khokhar Chowk etc. The inquiry officer has also sought the record from the officers concerned but they have not provided us with the relevant record yet,' an official source in the commissioner's office told Dawn.

He added that the LDA's Urban Development Wing would also be questioned about floating of a number of tenders for launch of development schemes and issuance of work orders despite the fact the LDA was passing through a financial crunch and had no money to clear bills/payments of over Rs1bn.

The LDA DG transferred Housing (VII) Director Sibtain Qureshi for not giving the probe committee the record of the fake duplicate files...