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South corpn clears first layout plans for regularised colonies

Wednesday, 26 June 2013 11:10 administrator
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The Indian Express             26.06.2013

South corpn clears first layout plans for regularised colonies

Almost 10 months after the regularisation of 895 colonies, the South Municipal Corporation on Tuesday approved the first layout plans for two such colonies under its jurisdiction. The Standing Committee of the corporation approved the layout plans for Rajouri Garden Extension and Meethapur Colony in Badarpur. The North and East corporations had approved layout plans for colonies under their purview earlier this year.

However, South corporation officials said the Residential Welfare Associations (RWA) of the two colonies would have to pay a layout preparation fee before the plans are released, even as the Fire department mandates that the minimum width of the road in the colony should be 6 metres.

"The case was scrutinised by the Layout Scrutiny Committee and it was decided that the minimum right of way on internal roads has to be maintained at 6 metres. Before the release of layout plan, the RWAs shall pay layout preparation fee to the consulting institute for preparation of layout plan. The consulting institute for the colonies is School of Planning and Architecture," a senior official said.

While the area of the plots have not been mentioned in the regularisation plan submitted by the RWAs, the width of the roads in both colonies varies from 1.8 m to 7.5 m. "The width of roads in Rajouri Garden Extension varies from 1.8 m to 7.5 m and is between 2.4 m and 7.5 m in Meethapur. The minimum right of way for internal roads has to be maintained at 6 m," a senior Town Planning department official said.

According to officials, the land use in Meethapur Colony is yet to be defined and the total area of the colony is 28.43 acres, of which 12.73 acres is residential. Rajouri Garden Extension falls under gross residential area and the total area of the colony is 5.22 acres, of which 3.42 acres is marked as residential.

In September last year, Delhi government identified 895 colonies for regularisation, of which 312 are on private land, for which corporations have to approve layout plans.