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BJP says regularisation an eye-wash

Delhi BJP has asked residents of unauthorised colonies to not get carried away by the announcement of the Delhi government to regularise their colonies. ‘The government is actually [fooling] people by false promises as it did in the last Assembly elections. It's just a pre-poll plank of the government to wrest maximum vote in unauthorised colonies. We will soon launch an agitation against it,’ said Vijay Jolly, spokesperson of Delhi state BJP.

With unauthorised colonies holding key to 35 assembly seats, the Delhi government has announced to regularise 1,639 colonies after clearance from Delhi Development Authority and also promised the budget for development in these areas.

The MLA seats such as Dwarka, Najafgarh, Palam, Karawal Nagar, Matiala, Mahipalpur, Uttam Nagar, Narela and Bawana are among over 35 constituencies which are dominated by unauthorised colonies. Dwarka legislative constituency has over 105 unauthorised colonies.

‘Just before the Assembly elections in 2008, the government distributed ‘provisional’ certificates to RWAs of unauthorised colonies but nothing was done,’ alleged Jolly.

‘So far, the government could execute development works worth only Rs 300 crore of the Rs 2,800 crore it had announced for unauthorised colonies,’ said Jolly.

The issue of regularisation of unauthorised colonies is over six decades old. For the first time in 1967-68, the city government approved 54 unauthorised colonies and send it for regularisation to central government. The number has now reached 1,639.
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