84-year-old UT resident struggling to get approval from estate office for 14 years

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A Sector 28 resident of Chandigarh was 70 years old when he completed the process of getting his shop-cum-flat (SCF) converted into a shop-cum-office (SCO). Sukhdev Singh is now 84 years old and the ailed system at the UT estate office is such that he continues to shuttle from one department to another.
Sukhdev Singh while explaining his ordeal said, “I was 70 years of age when I started the process of converting our referred SCF into SCO in terms of notified conversion policy of the Chandigarh administration. Today, I am 84 years of age and a period of 14 years has passed and the conversion is still awaited. Institutions like the estate office has no life span but I certainly have a life limited by a few months or years.”
While giving details about the dates which he started from, Singh said that on January 13, 2009, he had applied for conversion of the property and deposited a demand draft (DD) of Rs 50,000 as initial payment. On January 16, the estate office demanded Rs 1,11,200 as balance conversion charges.
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On February 16, 2009, he deposited the DD dated February 14, 2009 of Rs 1,11,200 with the estate office. Then he continued to shuttle, but nothing happened.
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