The Hindu 26.03.2013
Development works to start in 40 more illegal colonies
The Delhi Government has started the process of
regularisation of 40 more unauthorised colonies and will start
development works shortly, said Urban Development and Revenue Minister
Arvinder Singh Lovely here on Monday. The order was tabled by him in the
Assembly and this takes to 131 the total number of unauthorised
colonies in which work has been initiated this year.
Incidentally,
these 131 unauthorised colonies are those which could not be
regularised earlier as some part of them comprise land belonging to the
Forest Department, Delhi Ridge or the Archaeological Survey of India.
The
earlier order for commencing development work in 91 unauthorised
colonies had been issued on January 17. “With the 40 new colonies, the
government has now cleared the path for undertaking development works in
1,026 unauthorised colonies out of the 1,218 unauthorised colonies that
were issued provisional regularisation certificates in the year 2008,”
said Mr. Lovely.
Colony wise records too will be changed within one and a half months on ‘
khasra
’ basis by the Revenue Department, he said. “The Revenue Department has
also been empowered to de-notify private land which would allow people
residing on such land in unauthorised colonies to get sale of property
registered as per our earlier order,” he said.