The Times of India 17.04.2013
Admn to regularize 55 slums in Chanda
CHANDRAPUR: District administration has decided to regularize 55 slum areas in the city and award land lease (patta)
to the encroachers dwelling since 1995. Population of nearly 89,000
will be benefited by the move. Similar regularization drive for the
slums in other parts of district will also be taken up soon, claimed
collector Vijay Waghmare.
"The regularization drive will start from Ghutkala talao slum in couple of days. A camp will be set up by the administration and Chandrapur Municipal Corporation (CMC) in the slum, where the applications for regularization will by processed and land lease (patta) would be awarded to eligible beneficiaries," said Waghmare.
CMC commissioner, Prakash Bokad, who accompanied Waghmare, informed that there are 80 slums, out of which 55 are recognized, while 25 unrecognized. "30% population of the city lives in slum areas. In all 12,165 families resides in 55 recognized slums and they will be benefited with the regularization drive," he said.
Waghmare claimed that similar practice will be followed in the other slum areas of the town. The other civic bodies in the district have been asked to submit details of the slum areas in their jurisdiction for regularization, he said. He appealed to the beneficiary slum dwellers to submit necessary proofs of their residence in encroached land since 1995.
Ex-MP Naresh Puglia had taken up the issue of regularization of slums. He had collected 16,000 applications from slum dwellers and submitted to the administration for regularization. But, as matter remained unresolved, he took up hunger strike to push his demand. Revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat during his visit here to end Puglia's hunger strike had assured to see that slum regularization drive starts immediately.
"The regularization drive will start from Ghutkala talao slum in couple of days. A camp will be set up by the administration and Chandrapur Municipal Corporation (CMC) in the slum, where the applications for regularization will by processed and land lease (patta) would be awarded to eligible beneficiaries," said Waghmare.
CMC commissioner, Prakash Bokad, who accompanied Waghmare, informed that there are 80 slums, out of which 55 are recognized, while 25 unrecognized. "30% population of the city lives in slum areas. In all 12,165 families resides in 55 recognized slums and they will be benefited with the regularization drive," he said.
Waghmare claimed that similar practice will be followed in the other slum areas of the town. The other civic bodies in the district have been asked to submit details of the slum areas in their jurisdiction for regularization, he said. He appealed to the beneficiary slum dwellers to submit necessary proofs of their residence in encroached land since 1995.
Ex-MP Naresh Puglia had taken up the issue of regularization of slums. He had collected 16,000 applications from slum dwellers and submitted to the administration for regularization. But, as matter remained unresolved, he took up hunger strike to push his demand. Revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat during his visit here to end Puglia's hunger strike had assured to see that slum regularization drive starts immediately.
