Haryana Town and Country Planning Department has notified the affordable plotted housing policy 2016 for low and medium potential towns—Deen Dayal Jan Awas Yojna—to achieve the goal of houses for all.
A spokesman of the Department said that this policy would facilitate creation of additional affordable housing stock in the low and medium potential towns of the state.
He said that Deen Dayal Jan Awas Yojna aims at development of ‘high density plotted colonies’ in low and medium potential towns of the State wherein small plots are made available through a liberal policy framework. Under the scheme, all such projects would be required to be necessarily completed within seven years from the date of grant of licence.
The projects would be allowed in the residential zone of the notified development plans of low and medium potential towns of the State. In any residential sector, not more than 30 per cent of the net planned area under residential zone, inclusive of the 20 per cent area limit allowed for group housing projects, can be allowed for projects under this policy. The minimum and maximum net planned area for such projects would be five acres and 15 acres respectively. Not more than 10 per cent of the licenced area should fall under sector roads, he added.
He said that the licence fees would be levied at a rate of Rs one lakh per acre for medium potential towns and `10,000 per acre for low potential towns. The conversion charges and Infrastructure Development Charges (IDC) would stand waived off.
He said that the opening window for receipt of licence applications under this policy would be 90 days from the notification of this policy.
Applications would be entertained on an ongoing basis till the availability of area in any specific sector or any specific development plan vis-a-vis the area limits prescribed under this policy gets licenced. After receipt of application, complete in all respects, from an applicant, the decision regarding either issuance of letter of Intent or return or rejection of licence application would be conveyed to the applicant within a period of six months from the receipt of application, he added.