Making it clear that it would be the “last chance” to regularise unauthorised colonies, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Thursday directed all Deputy Commissioners to launch a “sustained campaign” to ensure 100 per cent regularisation of illegal colonies in their respective districts.
Presiding over a meeting of district administrative heads to review the progress of regularisation of illegal colonies in the state, Sukhbir said that all districts would have to expedite the task to achieve 100 per cent regularisation. He also clarified that the DCs concerned would be held accountable for the job. The last date for submitting applications is October 7 and there would be “no further extension”, he added.
He said that the Punjab Cabinet has already clarified that this chance of regularisation of illegal colony would be the last chance and “no further chance would be given for regularisation”. Sukhbir said that the Punjab Government was committed “not to allow any more illegal colonies in the State to maintain the planned character of the State”.
“Till date only 1,000 applications have been received from across the State, whereas there are more than 5,500 illegal colonies having lakhs of houses and plots,” Sukhbir said, asking the Deputy Commissioners to depute an officer for each colony to organize camp in the area. “The team would help applicants fill in forms and clear all formalities, besides depositing computation fee,” he said.
The Deputy Chief Minister also asked the DCs to tie up with leading banks of the region for payment collection and draft making process.
“The entire process had been made online to facilitate the user but the onus would be on the officer and his team to ensure that each and every household in his colony complete all formalities by the stipulated time,” said Sukhbir.
Making the DCs ‘Mission-in-charge of Regularisation’, Sukhbir asked them to submit weekly report to his office and by October 7, they would have to certify that there was no single unauthorised colony in their district.
He also sought cooperation from the people living in these colonies, saying that there would be no change or relaxation in the policy.