Lucknow Development Authority appeared to be embroiled in a major land scam with its officials selling plots and houses in the plush Vinamra and Vastu Khand areas of Gomtinagar without following the mandated lottery process.
The scam appears far bigger than the one during the Mulayam regime when LDA top brass allotted 28 plots to senior politicians and bureaucrats without lottery. This time, LDA officials allotted 52 out of 90 houses and plots to their favourite applicants. Worse, the plots were meant for SCs/STs, OBCs, MLAs, freedom-fighters and the physically challenged. However, LDA officials kept the rule book aside and allotted the properties to people in the general category.
Courtesy:- TOI dt:- 01-07-09
