The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has approved a proposal for allotment of a plot measuring 7066 square meters at 25 B, Akbar Road to Gujarat Government for its guest house.
This would be second guest house of the Gujarat Government. The proposal was approved at an Authority meeting chaired by lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on Wednesday.
After the approval of Authority, the same would be placed before the Ministry of Urban Development for the requisite approval of the Prime Minister’s Office. Thereafter based on approval, the modification in the layout plan will be taken up by the New Delhi Municipal Council. The Authority has also approved a proposal for allotment of additional 809 square meter land of prime real estate in Central Delhi’s Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Marg to the BJP for setting up its office.
Sources told The Pioneer the proposal was placed before the Authority meeting for permission of guest house in residential area use zone under sun clause 8 (2) of the Master Plan for Delhi 2021.
The decision was taken after the Urban Development Ministry’s technical committee report, allowing allotment of additional land to BJP for construction of its national office. The BJP currently operates from 11 Ashoka Road. The party is set to get four acres in central Delhi for its national office. Under the rules, framed in 2006, and amended in 2012, a national party with 101 to 200 MPs is entitled to two acres, while parties with over 200 MPs can get four acres. Since the NDA Government came to power last May, this would be the third plot that the Government has gifted to the BJP.
last August, the Urban Development Ministry had allotted a two-acre plot to the party, adjoining the plot whose allotment was cleared in February this year, for its national office.
Another 809 square metre plot was allotted in Pocket V, DDU Marg, for setting up its Delhi state office. Earlier, the allotment was made at plot no 4 and 5 at Kotla Road.
Currently, the party’s national office operates from 11, Ashoka Road, and the Delhi state unit office runs from 14, Pandit Pant Marg. NDA acts fast to give BJP 2 acres in Delhi The party will be shelling out far less compared to the market rate. The zonal variant institutional rate fixed by the government is 88 lakh per acre.
The Authority has also discussed the proposals of various State Governments for enhancing developmental control norms and has requested DDA to examine the matter. The requests come from Uttarakhand, MP, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Sikkim, Odisha, UP, HP, Goa and West Bengal who demanded to increase floor area ratio and maximum coverage area and increase in height. Currently, maximum coverage area is fixed 50 per cent while FAR is fixed 150 and height 26 meters for State Bhawans.C