\nThe Chief Minister\u2019s Secretariat has returned a Lahore Development Auth-ority\u2019s summary seeking approval for allotment of land for buildings of nine police stations in the city, it is learnt. The secretariat returned the summary to the LDA after the chief minister wrote \u201cno further action\u201d on it, officials told Dawn on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n
\nThey said the officials moved the summary to the secretariat about a year ago after the police department formally asked the LDA to identify and allot land free of cost for buildings of Township, Hanjarwal, Gulshan-i-Ravi, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Garden Town, Johar Town, Faisal Town and Liaquatabad police stations.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe chief minister neither approved nor rejected the summary. \u2018No further action\u2019 means he didn\u2019t give LDA go ahead to allot land to the police department,\u201d says an LDA official. The official said the process of land allotment to the police department was initiated by the LDA when Umar Rasool was the director general.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAfter receiving summary with such comments, the LDA can neither allot land to the police department nor cancel this proposal on its own. So we can now consider this matter as pending,\u201d he added. LDA Director General Abdul Jabbar Shaheen said he was unaware of any such a summary. \u201cThis summary was perhaps moved to the CM Secretariat before my posting here,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
\nCM Secretariat\u2019s Secretary Dr Tauqeer Shah said the government had not allocated funds for the construction of new government buildings and offices in its annual budget for the year 2011-12. \u201cThe decision was meant to increase spending on health, education, water and sanitation projects. I think that\u2019s why the chief minister did not allow allotment of land to the police department for construction of new police station buildings,\u201d said Shah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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