Dehradun, Oct. 17 -- District Development Authorities in the state have resorted to harassing the common people by sending them totally irrelevant notices in respect of their properties. These authorities are sending notices to even the villagers asking them to show records of permission for construction of their properties as old as forty or even fifty years. It may be pertinent to point here that these development authorities were previously meant to regulate construction activities and plan for the urban areas only. In the villages, they had no jurisdiction and the villagers were not required to get their house plans approved by any agency. However, when the BJP Government came to power in 2017, various urban development authorities were...