Chandigarh MP Pawan Kumar Bansal met UT senior officials on Monday and directed them to review the building bylaws in Chandigarh.
The meeting was convened in pursuance to a communication received from Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) where it was directed that the Adviser of union territory should hold meeting with Members of Parliament to discuss important issues pertaining to the union territory.
Bansal”s first meeting with senior UT officials continued for over two hours where he discussed the problems of villages, housing, industrialists, daily wagers among others with UT higher ups.
Eyeing the next lok Sabha elections, Bansal raised the issues of villages and also stressed on giving relaxations in building bylaws in the villages of union territory of Chandigarh.
During the meeting, Bansal raised the issues of the villages of Maloya, Palsora, Kajheri, Dadu Majra and Hallomajra seeking suitable amendment of the Chandigarh Administration notification of 2009 regarding inclusion of these villages under Punjab New Capital (Periphery Control) Act. On this, the senior officials apprised that the vision for holistic planning of these villages has been articulated in the draft Chandigarh Master Plan-2031 which is in the public domain for suggestions/comments from the public. It was discussed that an appropriate solution to the issue would have to be thought of after looking into the practices evolved in other cities.
The matters pertaining to leasehold rights to licensees of tenements, transfer of CHB dwelling units to the GPA holders, revival of industries, amendment of building bylaws (residential and commercial) and policy for allotment of land for places of religious worship were taken up by the local MP. He also emphasised on the need of bringing in an industrial policy for the city.
Bansal also took up the issue of regularization of daily wage employees working with the UT Administration/Municipal Corporation. The senior UT official informed that the Administration is formulating a policy on Punjab pattern on the basis of the SC judgment in the Uma Devi case regarding regularization of daily wagers working against sanctioned posts as a one-time measure.
After meeting the senior officials, Bansal said, “A number of issues were discussed in the meeting and the response of Administration was satisfactory. The Administration is already looking into the significant issues of building bylaws in villages and sectors of the city.”
During the meeting with the local MP Bansal, senior UT officials including KK Sharma, Adviser to Administrator, UT Home Secretary Anil Kumar, UT Finance Secretary VK Singh, UT Chief architect Sumit Kaur among others were present.