{"id":82411,"date":"2021-12-20T17:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T12:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=82411"},"modified":"2021-12-20T17:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T12:21:35","slug":"lda-waives-conversion-fee-for-wapdas-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-waives-conversion-fee-for-wapdas-college.html","title":{"rendered":"LDA allows fee waiver of land conversion for WAPDA\u2019s medical college"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has amended its land-use regulations 2020, under which land conversion fee was waived for charitable organisations, according to news published on Monday (December 20).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-master-plan-lahore-division.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LDA directed to make master plan for Lahore Division<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the details, the LDA rejected the request of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) several times before amending its rules. The authority submitted an application along with its Federal Board of Revenue (FBR)-issued trust registration certificate to waive the conversion fee. It was mentioned that keeping in mind the compliance of Financial Action Task Force (FATF)-related laws, the authority decided to change its rules.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, the authority first applied to get exemption from PKR 54 million conversion fee for WAPDA Medical College Trust in 2019. However, the authority was subjected to pay a conversion fee, provide adequate parking, and a 30-foot houseline on the premises as prescribed by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-building-and-zoning-regulations-2020-approved.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> LDA Building and Zoning regulations<\/a>. Later, WAPDA applied for instalments, which was approved in November 2019. The authority was, then, asked to pay the conversion fee in eight equal instalments of PKR 6.8 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing details about the college, it was disclosed that the medical college will be developed on Abdul Sattar Edhi Road in Phase-II of WAPDA Town. The authority has allocated 47-kanals of land for the institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-funds-mega-development-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LDA requests funds to complete mega development projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The LDA has also approved similar applications from other charitable organisations including Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital &amp; Research Centre and Tehzibul Akhlaq Trust for setting up New Aligarh University in Lahore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has amended its land-use regulations 2020, under which land conversion fee was waived for charitable organisations, according to news published on Monday (December 20).\u00a0 Read: LDA directed to make master plan for Lahore Division As per the details, the LDA rejected the request of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) several times before amending its rules. The authority submitted an application along with its Federal Board of Revenue (FBR)-issued trust registration certificate to waive the conversion fee. It was mentioned that keeping in mind the compliance of Financial Action Task Force (FATF)-related laws, the authority decided to change its rules.&nbsp; Reportedly, the authority first applied to get exemption from PKR 54 million conversion fee for WAPDA Medical College Trust in 2019. However, the authority was subjected to pay a conversion fee, provide adequate parking, and a 30-foot houseline on the premises as prescribed by the LDA Building and Zoning regulations. Later, WAPDA applied for instalments, which was approved in November 2019. The authority was, then, asked to pay the conversion fee in eight equal instalments of PKR 6.8 million.\u00a0 Sharing details about the college, it was disclosed that the medical college will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":75363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[3232,50119],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-lahore-development-authority-lda","9":"tag-lda-allows-fee-waiver-of-land-conversion-for-wapdas-medical-college","10":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LDA waives conversion fee for WAPDA\u2019s medical college- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has amended its land-use regulations 2020, under which land conversion fee was waived for charitable organisations...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-waives-conversion-fee-for-wapdas-college.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LDA waives conversion fee for WAPDA\u2019s medical college- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has amended its land-use regulations 2020, under which land conversion fee was waived for charitable organisations...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-waives-conversion-fee-for-wapdas-college.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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