Ahead of the impending municipal elections in Delhi, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on Tuesday announced allowing ownership right on full plot area in case of private land and simplifying the development control norms in unauthorized colonies by reducing the norms for group housing land requirement from 3000 square metres to 2000 sqm.
Further, as per the amendments in the PM-UDAY Regulations, vacant government land parcels can be earmarked / reserved for creation of supporting social and physical infrastructure for unauthorized colonies regeneration / redevelopment and pave the way for regularization of UCs.
“Vacant land parcels can be utilized for creation of parks, schools, hospitals / dispensary for the benefit of residents of UCs.
Protection of vacant government land from unscrupulous elements / land grabbers under the garb of General Power of Attorney (GPA) and Agreement to Sell (ATS),” Union Housing and Urban Affairs minister Hardeep Puri said.
This will also curb the practice of creating fake and illegal property documents for government land, he added. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and state BJP leaders have written to the MoHUA requesting modifications in the list of documents needed for processing the applications to further simplify the process so that people can be covered or benefit from the scheme.
The DDA has received 90,700 applications of which approximately 21,000 were rejected as the applicants were found to be ineligible and 11,500 were given ownership documents (either conveyance deed to properties on private land or authorisation slip to properties on government land). Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Puri said that new amendments in unauthorized colonies (UC) will help residents to get their property registration without any hassle. “Many applicants under PM-UDAY are not in possession of valid ‘Will’ document. As on 04.03.2022, around 1,000 applications under PM-UDAY have been kept under abeyance due to unavailability of valid ‘Will’ or ‘Gift Deed’ documents.
The proposed amendment for not treating valid ‘Will’ as a mandatory document will resolve the grievance of applicants whose applications have been kept on hold due to absence of valid Will.
It will speed up the process of disposal of cases and will facilitate in increasing the number of Conveyance Deed (CD) /Authorization Slip (AS),” he said. On the amendments of in the Delhi Development Act 1957, the minister said that a major recommendation is that once the minimum threshold of 70% voluntary land pool area is achieved in a sector, it shall be obligatory for all landowners of the sector i.e. the balance 30%, to mandatorily pool their land.
“Keeping in view that the proposed amendments will have to follow the due legislative process, which will take time, a second pronged strategy has also been worked out.
It has been decided that DDA will issue conditional notice for formation of consortium for the eligible sectors (where 70% land is pooled), stating that consortium would ensure proper contiguity of all the partially participated khasras at the time of filing the implementation plan,” he said.
The amendments will empower to central government to declare mandatory pooling even if minimum threshold participation has not been achieved to ensure time bound planned development.
Reacting on the amendment, BJP MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri who was present at the press conference alongwith BJP Delhi unit president Adesh Gupta, said that these amendments will simplify the norms in 1700 unauthorised colonies in Delhi and this will be a great relief to these people.