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CM hails Centre's move on unauthorised colonies

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated people of Delhi and thanked the Central government for clearing the Delhi government's proposal to regularise 1,797 unauthorised colonies. "As soon as our government came to power in February, 2015, we immediately started to work in this direction. A detailed proposal for regularisation of the unauthorised colonies in Delhi was made and submitted to the union government on November 12, 2015. As you know the union government made a draft cabinet note and gave it to us in July, 2019. They had given us 2-3 weeks of time to reply. But within 4-5 days, without any delay we replied on July 24. We gave 12 suggestions. And we accepted the proposal in the union cabinet note," CM said.

Kejriwal said, "People will get the actual benefit of this only once they receive the registry. Until then, people may think that it is an effort to woo them before the elections. Delhi government is ready to undertake the registration process as early as possible once the notification is done by the Centre. Revenue Department will set up camps in the colonies and the process will be completed as early as possible. The stamp duty on the registry will be nominal. We are hoping that the procedure until notification is completed by the Centre at the earliest. We are confident of completing registries of 40 lakh people within a month."

It was a long struggle of the Aam Aadmi Party and the people of Delhi for the regularisation of unauthorised colonies, he said.

Speaking at a press conference, senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh said, "For four years BJP sat on the proposal and did not make any decisions on it. We kept writing to them asking them to revert. Meanwhile, we did not ignore people's demand to live in better colonies. We spent Rs 6,000 crore in the last five years to develop water supply, sewer, and drainage to make the colonies livable." "The BJP could pass ordinances to celebrate Jallikattu festival so why can't they pass an ordinance for this too? The AAP-led government is ready to authorise colonies any day,"he added.

Speaking at the same conference AAP's national spokesperson Raghav Chadha said, "In order to authorise the colonies the government will require mapping of these colonies and we have that ready through GSDL, an agency. We want the registry to start immediately."

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