LAHORE, April 30: Lahore Development Authority’s governing body on Monday decided to withdraw notifications issued to landowners for acquisition of land for LDA Avenue-II.

The body took the decision at a meeting after the land owners showed disinterest or refused to surrender their land to LDA for the housing scheme.

LDA planned to start the project last year on 1,100 kanals on Raiwind Road, but the land owners refused to surrender their land, forcing the authority to postpone its project.

The meeting, presided over by governing body chairman DCO Noorul Amin Mengal, was attended by Lahore Commissioner Jawad Rafique Malik as a special guest.

It decided to spend Rs250 million on various development projects in the city. It decided to widen and improve 1.5km long road from Bhogiwal Road to China Road in Gujjarpura Scheme at the cost of Rs58 million and spend Rs53.20 million on improvement of Palwama Chowk (Channar Chowk near Adda Plot on Raiwind Road).

The meeting decided to lay synthetic turf with allied infrastructure and install floodlights at the Hockey Stadium being constructed in Johar Town with Rs138.920 million and allowed procurement of 600 school chairs with Rs3 million from Tevta for students studying in six models schools being run by LDA.

The authority allowed recruitment of qualified officials to Wasa on competitive pay packages. Wasa director (administration) Muhammad Irfan told the participants that three directors and 15 deputy directors would be recruited to improve agency’s functioning if the proposal was approved.

COURSE: The first two-day special training course for training of master trainers for dengue control and prevention will commence on May 2 at District Health Development Centre on Punch Road.

As many as 186 college/school teachers will attend the course in eight batches/groups.

BAN: LDA director general Ahad Khan Cheema on Monday imposed a ban on transfer of all officials working in various LDA wings till further orders.

ACTION: Monitoring teams consisting of officials of town administration and CDGL got five cases registered against one-dish policy violators.

PRICES: The DCO has fixed prices of milk and yogurt.

According to a notification issued on Monday, the DCO has fixed price of milk (high fat) at Rs51 per litre and yogurt at Rs58 per kilo.