Chandigarh, August 10
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has unearthed a scam worth Rs 182.46 crore related to an illegal construction of a multi-storeyed building on notified land and consequent unauthorised sale of commercial office spaces in Faridabad.
“The officials of MC, Faridabad (MCF), Urban Local Bodies Department, Forest Department and Revenue Department had facilitated such gross violations by the Developer,” said the CAG.
During the examination of issues (November-December 2021), it came out that the developer — Godavari Shilpkala Pvt Ltd — had been granted permission for change in land use (CLU) on March 12, 1992, by the Chief Administrator-cum-Director, Town and Country Planning, Faridabad Complex Administration, for a stretch of 5.5 acre in the revenue estate of Lakkarpur village for development and use of the land as ‘Recreational, Cultural and Hotel Complex’. The land has been categorised as non-cultivable hills (gair mumkin pahar). On the developer’s request, the MCF allotted 3.93-acre more land in 1995 in Lakkarpur village, which was a PLPA notified land.
Two specific conditions were prescribed on the developer that the site would be used for recreational, cultural and hotel complex, while it was not to be sub-divided, as per the CLU agreement.
However, the developer planned five building blocks on the 5.5-acre stretch, of which four were…