Surya Enclave residents put JIT in a tight spot

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 9

Residents of Surya Enclave have lodged a police complaint against the Chairman and Executive Officer of the Jalandhar Development Authority, Superintending Engineer and staff for not honouring the commitment and fulfilling the promises of various facilities made to them 18 years ago.

On behalf of the residents, Rajeev Dhamija, general secretary of the Surya Enclave Welfare Society, has lodged a complaint with the Commissioner of Police saying: “We were allotted freehold residential plots in the 170-acre scheme in 2003. The then Chairman of JIT, Tajinder Singh Bittu, had prepared a brochure attaching a layout plan, which had provisions for ultra-modern golf course range and ultra-modern community centre.”

He said residents had been promised an LPG gas pipeline for which they had paid Rs8,000 to Rs20,000 in different categories. The amount was deposited by all allottees in 2004. Residents rued that none of these three promised facilities had been provided to them ever since.

He said all promises now seemed a fluke and a “mala fide intention by the authorities to cheat and defraud them of additional charges”. He said despite several meetings and protests, the authorities have not come into action. Residents have demanded that an FIR be lodged against the JIT authorities after inquiring into the matter. They have submitted to him a copy of the brochure printed by the JIT in 2003.