The Pioneer 29.11.2010
Govt rejects nod for institutes which flout 2021 Master PlanRajesh kumar | New Delhi
The Delhi Government has rejected a proposal of permitting new educational institutes to run courses from provisionally regularised colonies and lal dora areas in the national Capital if it does not conform to the Master Plan of Delhi 2021.
The document available with The Pioneer clearly stated that no institution of higher education could come up in Delhi, if does not conform to the MPD 2021. MLAs from both the Congress and BJP have been demanding that new institutions should be allowed in unauthorised colonies and rural areas, especially lal dora. Legislators have been raising the issue in the Assembly for the past several years. “The utilisation of land in unauthorised colonies, provisionally regularised colonies, and eligible for regularisation is required to fulfill the regulations as per the provisions of the Master Plan and Zonal Plan. Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and Delhi Government may follow the policy framed by the Ministry of Urban Develop-ment. The institutions would also necessarily have to follow the procedure laid down by the DDA. Only thereafter the Delhi Government will be in a position to issue no objection certificate to such institutions,” it said.
The document further stated that institutions in existence prior to January 1, 2006 and are functioning since then and to whom the affiliation has been granted by Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University and are covered by the Cabinet decision dated June 21, 2010, will be allowed to continue till the finalisation of the MPD 2010.
Sources in the Government said that this was disclosed in a note moved by the Department of Higher Education seeking clarification regarding permitting new institutes to run courses from lal dora and extended lal dora.
Congress MLA Balram Tanwar from Chhatarpur told The Pioneer that there is an urgent need to allow new educational institutes in Delhi dehat areas and unauthorised colonies. “I am demanding this for last several years. Those living in dehat areas are in pathetic state, having no colleges. If the Government is not in a position to open new institutes or colleges, they should allow opening of new educational institutes in dehat areas,” Tanwar demanded. He had raised the issue in the Assembly’s Budget Session this year. He had taken up the issue with Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on several occasions.
There are 1,639 unauthorised colonies while 770 are regularised unauthorised colonies. Beside this, there are 362 villages in Delhi out of which 135 are currently classified as urban villages and 227 as rural villages.
