LDA’s TP wing intensifies recovery drive
17-3-2023
Directorate of Town Planning (DTP) of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has intensified its recovery drive to achieve the total assigned target of Rs8 billion for the year 2022-23. Video Player is loading. Pause Unmute Remaining Time -10:03 Close PlayerUnibots.in Data collected from the DTP, the total target assigned to the Directorate of Town Planning for the financial year 2022-23 was Rs8 billion out of which Rs7 billion were to be collected in the head of the commercialisation fee and Rs1 billion under the head of fees, fines, penalties and etc. Till the end of February 2023, the directorate recovered Rs3,775,595,441/-, which was 47 percent of the total assigned target for the year. Data revealed that out of the total target, all the wings of DTP has so far recovered Rs2,381,683,330/- under the head of Permanent Commercialisation Fees, Rs357,493,987/- as Annual Commercialisation fees and Rs1,036,418,124/- under the head of fees, fines, penalties and etc. Advertisement Individual data revealed that the total target of DTP-I for the financial year 2022-23 was Rs590 million out of which Rs490 million were to be collected in the head of the commercialisation fee and Rs100 million under the head of fees, fines, penalties and etc. Till the end of February 2023, the directorate recovered Rs158,026,992/-, which was only 27 percent of the total target. With this recovery, the directorate was ranked lowest among the other directorates. Data revealed that out of the total target, DTP-I recovered Rs80,380,923/- under the head of Permanent Commercialisation Fees, Rs43,434,190/- as Annual Commercialization fees and Rs34,211,879/- under the head of fees, fines, penalties and etc. Advertisement Data showed that the total target of DTP-II for the financial year 2022-23 was Rs990 million out of which Rs840 million were to be collected in the head of the commercialisation fee and Rs150 million under the head of fees, fines, penalties and etc. Till the end of February 2023, the directorate only recovered Rs410,085,373/-, which was 42 percent of the total target. Data revealed that out of the total target, DTP-II recovered Rs301,928,783 under the head of Permanent Commercialisation Fees, Rs25,939,147/- as Annual Commercialisation fees and Rs82,217,443/- under the head of fees, fines, penalties and etc. The total target of DTP-III for the financial year 2022-23 was Rs2.090 billion out of which Rs1.890 billion were to be collected in the head of the commercialisation fee and Rs200 million under the head of fees, fines, penalties and etc. Till the end of February 2023, the directorate recovered Rs1,109,896,558/- which was 53 percent of the total target. Advertisement Data revealed that out of the total target, DTP-III recovered Rs566,591,329/- were recovered under the head of Permanent Commercialization Fees, Rs204,759,345/- as Annual Commercialisation fees and Rs338,554,884 under the head of fees, fines, penalties and etc.