The top management of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has attempted to change the basic skeleton of the authority by eliminating the independence of Metropolitan and Town Planning wings.
Sources in LDA claimed that the move was allegedly taken to oblige the ‘blue-eyed’ ADGs, who will now head the directorates, which were not relevant to their job descriptions.
According to organogram available on the LDA’s website, the director general is the head under whom six different departmental heads are mentioned ADG (HQ), ADG (Housing), ADG (Urban Planning), Chief Engineer, Chief Metropolitan Planner and Chief Town Planner.
Recently, LDA’s Administration department issued a notification on the orders of DG LDA/Commissioner Lahore Muhammad Ali Randhawa which stated that work distribution among the Additional Director Generals was done with immediate effects.
As per the new notification, ADG (Headquarter) will be the head of Directorate of Administration, Directorate of Coordination & Implementation, Directorate of Finance, Directorate of information Technology (Implementation & Operations), Directorate of Information Technology (Networks, Systems & Security), Directorate of information Technology (General), Directorate of information Technology (Coordination), Strategic Policy Unit, Directorate of Public Relations & Marketing, Directorate of Revenue, Directorate of Sports Complexes and Directorate of Environmental Control.
