The Times of India 28.08.2012
900 colonies to be regularized
in Delhi, giving a push to chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s much
promised plan. The Delhi government is likely to issue a notification on
Tuesday.
On Monday, Dikshit met Union urban development
minister Kamal Nath along with her outgoing urban development minister A
K Walia, and Arvinder Singh Lovely, who will now handle the portfolio.
The Centre’s approval followed Dikshit’s clarifications on various
issues that were blocking the decision.
Dikshit’s parliamentary
secretary Mukesh Sharma, who was present during the meeting, said Delhi
government would issue a notification on Tuesday to regularize 917
colonies. A K Walia said decks have been cleared for issuance of the
notification to regularize the colonies, considered traditional votebank
of the Congress in the city of 1.67 crore.
The Delhi BJP
has, however, sought to know how this announcement will give the 40
lakh people residing in these colonies rights to register their
properties and execute legal deeds, and get civic amenities in the
absence of necessary formalities to be completed by the civic agencies.
The Delhi government had completed all the ground work for
regularization of the colonies, a key poll promise of the Congress
government which is due to face elections in 15 months.
clarifications from the Delhi government on regularization of the
colonies which were cleared for the process by all the concerned
departments. Delhi government had sought opinion from Union urban
development ministry whether the Delhi high court should be informed about the regularization process as in an order in 1993, it had asked the city authorities to do so. Sharma said government would inform the court about the regularization process when information is sought.
over 1,639 unauthorized colonies ahead of assembly polls in 2008. The
Dikshit government, while distributing the certificates, had promised to
regularize the colonies if Congress came to power for the third term.
Meanwhile, the Delhi BJP hit back at the Congress for its “hasty and
unplanned decision” and misleading the people of Delhi with promise of a
“bogus certification”.
The BJP cited the pre-2008 assembly
election declaration of provisional regularization and issuance of
provisional regularization certificates.
“Till date not even a single colony has been regularized.
Between 2008 March when the first set of guidelines for regularisation
were issued by the union ministry of urban development the guidelines
itself have been undermined by interpretations that suit the
government,” BJP state President Vijender Gupta had said at a press meet
on Saturday.
