LDA tracing missing files of its rented properties

Many tenants have not paid rent and notices are to be served on them. Files are also needed if LDA is to sell rented properties to tenants

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on Wednesday started a probe to trace missing files of its rented properties, said officials.

To note, a large number of residential and commercial properties of the development authority all over the city are on rent. Some state government offices are also running on LDA’s properties.

A large number of LDA’s tenants have not paid rent to the development authority. Notices are being sent to all of them. However, files of many tenants are missing.

The Gandhi Ashram in Hazratganj and the information department’s office in the adjacent building are being run on LDA’s properties. Files of both these properties are also missing. Apart from this, around 550 properties of the LDA are under illegal possession.

When the development authority initiated the process

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We have started investigation to locate missing files. During probe it will also be investigated how the files went missing. RAJIV KUMAR, officer on special duty, LDA

of evicting these illegal occupants, then it came to know about the missing files.

Rajiv Kumar, officer on special duty, LDA, is probing the case. “We have started investigation to locate missing files. During probe it will also be investigated how the files went missing,” said Kumar.

The development authority is in the process of selling its rented properties to tenants. For this, the LDA is organising a special registry camp from March 10 to March 25. But the missing files are proving to be an obstacle in the sale.

Napier Road Colony, Kapoorthala complex, Pandey Ka Talab, Balda Road Colony, Lalkuan, Paper Mill Colony, Akbari Gate, Tilak Nagar, Chowk, Billochpura, Lawrence Terrace, Aishbagh and Hata Khuda Baksh are some areas where the LDA’s rented properties are under illegal possession.

“Most of the files are very old. No one knows since when they are missing. It will not be easy for the development authority to trace the missing files,” said a senior LDA official.

Files going missing is not a new phenomenon in the development authority. Some clerks in the LDA are notorious for misplacing files due to vested interests. In July last, the development authority had to strive to retrieve files from its suspended clerk Mukteshwar Nath Ojha that were locked in his cupboard for around five months.