With a view to ensuring better maintenance of all amenities and greater satisfaction of residents of those sectors of HUDA where more than five years have elapsed after completion of development works, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal has approved a standard set of terms and conditions for
transfer of such sectors to the concerned Municipal Corporations in the State.
The Chief Minister has also approved the transfer of 33 such HUDA Sectors to the Municipal Corporation (MC), Gurgaon. Now, the MCG will look after water supply, sewerage, storm water, street light, roads, horticultural and sanitation services in these sectors.
Giving details, an official spokesman said that these included Sectors 3, 5, 6 4, 7, Sector 7 extension, Sector 9, 9A, 10A, 12-12A, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 23A, 27, 28, 30 (part), 31, 32, 33, 34, 37 (I and II), 38, 39, 40, 41 (part), 42, 43, 47, 54, 55 and 56. The ownership of all open spaces in these sectors would now vest with MC.
The extension fee, transfer fee, other recoveries related to the plots would still be recovered by HUDA but 75 per cent of the recovery of the extension fee, building application fee, composition charges recovered by HUDA would be remitted to the MC, by the 15th of the following month, and 25 per cent would be retained by HUDA. The recovery of water and sewerage charges and property taxes would be made by MC, the spokesman said.
The development of essential infrastructure like provision of slaughter house, meat market, cremation ground, transport nagar, disposal land fill sites for solid waste manangement and sewerage treatment plants would be done by HUDA. The staff of HUDA posted and involved in maintenance will initially be sent on deputation to MCG. The vehicles and other maintenance machineries will be transferred to MCG.
He said that the deficiencies in services pointed out by MCG will be either made good by HUDA or the estimated cost thereof would be deposited with MCG in a period of three months. HUDA will also transfer half of the profit from the receipt of unsold plots whether residential, institutional or commercial whose ownership would continue to vest with HUDA.
Such functions as sanction of the building plans, composition of unauthorized construction and issue of occupation certificate in the transferred HUDA sectors would continue to remain with HUDA, he added.