The Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab on Tuesday issued orders to dissolve all Improvement Trusts in the state. After this, all the Chairman’s and trustees appointed during the time of Congress have left their posts.
For the meantime, Deputy Commissioners will oversee the work of the trusts. He has been given the charge of the Improvement Trust as the chairman.
Presently there are 28 Improvement Trusts in Punjab. The dissolved improvement trust included Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Sangrur, Bathinda, Patiala, Phagwara, Fardikot, Pathankot, Kapurthala and Tarn Taran.
Improvement Trusts are engaged in developing residential and commercial schemes. The Improvement Trusts have been functioning for 22 years.
They were established with an aim to help the Punjab Improvement Trust employees, allottees and common people by providing related Acts, Rules and Govt. instructions issued time to time.
An official said the Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 — that governed the functioning of Improvement Trusts — seized to exist after the 1995 Act came into being.