DDA clueless about building by-law changes
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NEW DELHI, NOV 10: Four months after the Delhi government made certain
changes in the archaic building by-laws, the Delhi Development Authority
(DDA) is still clueless about them. Especially the amendments in the by-laws
which relate to regularisation of unauthorized colonies. The upshot: work on
the 1,071 colonies identified for this purpose in 1993 will have to start
afresh.
But the DDA, the implementing authority, has not been informed about these
changes either.
“There are different categories of colonies and the majority of them are on
government land. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has categorised them
differently to collect property tax and as a result, every cluster will have
different guidelines for regularisation,” a DDA official said.
The officials are of the view that in the absence of a Union minister for
urban development —- Ghulam Nabi Azad is now the chief minister of Jammu &
Kashmir —- the process of ratification of the changes devised by the state
government will take a long time.
“There is no deadline for the regularisation of unauthorised colonies and
all of them might not be regularised at one go. The process could start with
the colonies on government land,” an official from the urban development
ministry said.
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