The State Housing and Urban Development Minister Pritam Singh Panwar said that with the opening of the Uttarakhand Housing and Urban Development Authority office, the citizens will find it convenient to get their works done here. The Minister said this after inaugurating the UHUDA office at the Rajiv Gandhi multipurpose complex on Dispensary Road here on Wednesday.
later during the second board meeting of the authority, the board members gave their approval to preparation of master-plan for Roorkee development area and notification of the Special Area Development Authority (SADA) area under Uttarakhand Town and Country Planning and Development Act, 1973. The board also approved the implementation of the voluntary compounding scheme for one time settlement and the policy for allocation of homes/land plots to the economically weaker section of society. Approval in principle was also granted for deciding the future action on the rent-to-own scheme of HUDCO for housing facility to employees working in various departments.
The proposal for formation of a PMU cell in the authority consisting of outsourced experts/personnel for drafting and execution of the UHUDA’s infrastructural projects was also approved. Additionally, the board approved effective action to control cases of unauthorised constructions under the purview of local authorities and monitoring by the UHUDA of the action taken by the local authorities in cases of buildings constructed in an area more than 2,500 square metres.
Earlier, interacting with media persons while responding to a question about change of agricultural land use at a time when the Chief Minister Harish Rawat is stressing on the need for saving agricultural land, Panwar said that land use changes are made as per changing requirements. A concrete decision regarding the land could be taken only by the State cabinet. MlA and Parliamentary secretary Rajkumar, UHUDA chief administrator DS Garbyal, additional chief administrator Dr V Shanmugam, Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority vice chairman R Meenakshi Sundaram, MDDA secretary Banshidhar Tiwari, Mukhya Nagar Adhikari Harak Singh Rawat and others were also present on the occasion.