Chandigarh

Hry amends policy for regularisation of nursing homes

PNS

Haryana Government has amended the policy for regularisation of existing nursing homes running from residential premises and grant of new nursing homes in the state.

Urban local Bodies Minister,  Kavita Jain on Wednesday said that as per the amendment, the policy for regularization of nursing homes would be applicable in the core area, residential zone, industrial zone and public and semi public zone as per the zoning regulation of the development plans.

The new permissions for nursing homes would be given only in the core area. Outside the core areas, the permission would be given in accordance with change of land use policy and as per zoning regulation of the development plan the Minister said.

She said that area of the plot size should not be less than 350 square yards for the hyper or high potential zone and 250 square yards for the medium and low potential zone. The maximum upper limit for regularization would be 750 square yards in case of hyper or high potential zone and 300 square yards for medium and low potential zone, she said.

If the area of the site is 350 square yards to 500 square yards, in that case, approach through 9 meter road is required and if the nursing home is having more than 500 square yards area, then the same need to be shifted to road having width of 12 meter or more, she added.