Fact-finding panel to again visit Ansal township

LUCKNOW: The five-member factfinding panel of UP lawmakers, which is probing charges of serious anomalies and violations in Sushant Golf City of Ansal API, will visit the township on Tuesday along with senior housing and government officials.

The realtor, according to reports submitted by two government panels, has made some serious land use violations, collected crores by way of property booking and not fulfilled its commitments to thousands of home-buyers, including both moneyed and economically weaker sections.

“I have seen the reports but we don’t go by what the officials say. In any case, ours is a muchhigher inquiry committee, that is why all senior officials related to the issue like principal secretaries of Vidhan Sabha, Housing and LDA Vice Chairman have been asked to remain present at the site during the visit,” said Vinod Katiyar, BJP MLA from Kanpur (rural), convener of the House committee.

Since LDA is the nodal agency, whose job was to supervise and regulate the affairs of the township, its vice chairman Prabhu Narain Singh was asked to submit a comprehensive status report on the township.

“The committee members will cross-check all the information on the spot and then give its findings,” said Katiyar. Other MLAs on the sub-committee set up by Assembly speaker Hridaya Narain Dixit include BC Verma, SR Verma, Rampal Verma (of the BJP) and Amitabh Bajpai of the Samajwadi Party.

The panel, which had first visited the township on June 23, found that the developer had not complied with the mandatory requirement of providing 10 per cent houses to economically weaker sections and lower income groups even in the first phase of the township.

It had also found several discrepancies in the claims made by the developer over project delivery, facilities and other civic amenities in the state capital’s only hi-tech township.

The grievances panel has received about 200 complaints against the developer from home buyers and may hold public hearing in the matter to get to the bottom of the issue.

The developer has also been accused of selling land earmarked for facilities like stadium and recreational activities.