Delhiities can expect houses under group housing societies in Rohini’s Sector 40 and 41. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA), in its authority meeting on Thursday, proposed to auction around 131 hectares of land in the area to developers who would in turn build group housing societies on the same. In the meeting, the Delhi lieutenant Governor also passed the proposal of building studio apartments for senior citizens in Rohini.
As per the proposal a total of 214.09 hectares land is available in Sector 40 and 41 at Rohini and out of which 131.62 hectares have residential land use, officials said. “This area is bounded by heavily built up area and prone to encroachments and thus needed to be developed at a fast pace. The proposal states that residential area available there should be subdivided into modules of approximately five hectares each and e-auctioned to the developers to be developed as group housing,” said a senior officials.
“Considering the huge demand for housing in Delhi and also the directions of MOUD to provide one million dwelling units by 2022, group housing through developers had been proposed in the Authority meeting,” added the DDA official. The development will be in terms of Master Plan Delhi-2021 norms, wherein inter-alia 15 per cent of Floor Area Ratios is for community services personnel or EWS housing. The 50 per cent of EWS housing has to be given back to DDA at a rate as determined by CPWD.
“The second proposal in the same sectors i.e., 40 and 41 was to permit to construct and operate single room studio apartments for Sr. citizens beyond the age of 60 with participation from developers. It was proposed that on a land measuring 5 hectares, studio apartments will be constructed through PPP mode wherein DDA’s contribution will by way of land component and the developers will build, operate and maintain the complexes,” said another official. These complexes will have all the facilities such as common kitchen, medical facilities, common rooms, reading rooms, library, offices, gym etc. These will be allotted to eligible persons on rental basis. After which it will be allotted to the next person in the waiting list.
In the meeting it was also decided that in order to provide relief to the allottees and occupants of DDA flats allotted on installments (hire purchase basis) and where the allottees have defaulted in payment of installments, a scheme of relief in penalty was earlier approved by Authority and was up to September 10. The Authority further extended the penalty relief scheme up to December 31 this year. As per this scheme relief of 25 per cent in penalty is given to the allottees that clear all their installments due as on the date of application for penalty relief.