Unapproved colonies’ regularisation sought

President of the association Kultar Singh Jogi said,“The demolition exercise should be stopped with immediate effect because this has led to the death of one of our colleague in Dhandra village last week when PUDA team had gone to demolish the illegal colonies.”

As per the allegations of the association- Pinky Chawla property dealer in Chawla colony died of heart attack when the PUDA team came to demolish his Chawla Colony. Jatinder Pal Singh Saluja,state general secretary said,“The consumers are ready to pay the development charges and that can be determined by the Government in consultation of our association members.”

It needs to be mentioned that more than 1,000 undeclared colonies are in Ludhiana alone and the property dealers are urging to regularise them in the entire state where no norms have been followed in making a colony.

They stated that in many colonies more than 60 per cent of the development work has also been completed and consumers have invested huge amount. So demolition of these colonies at this point is not justified.

The members stated that they will be making a 101-member committee which will be taking further actions in future. The association demanded that within 15 days they should be called by the Government for a meeting on this issue.

Gurvinder Singh Lamba,Kamal Chaitly and many others also spoke on the occasion. More than 5,000 colonisers from across the state attended this meeting.