Union ministry of urban development on Wednesday announced the extension of the last date for regularisation of farmhouses.
Farmhouse owners in the city have submitted several representations to the DDA and civic
bodies to relax norms to ease regularisation. Many owners believe that only extension of dates won’t work.
‘A number of issues had been raised in the representation related to relaxation of norms and extending the date. The amendments are being looked into separately,’ said spokesperson of DDA.
It is important to mention that after approval of the DDA, the municipal corporations launched the scheme to regularise unauthorised construction but it received a grim response.
According to an estimate there are over 2,500 farm houses in the area of South Delhi Municipal Corporation but only 45 were regularised in the past one year. The municipal corporations have been directed to consider the only online applications from farm houses for regularisation.
‘The extended date will be applicable only after the municipal corporations announce the operationalisation of online system and separately inform the Union Urban Development Ministry for its functioning,’ said the spokesperson. The ministry’s direction for online sanction of the unauthorised farm houses is to maintain transparency in the system.
The lukewarm response in regularisation of the unauthorised construction in the farm houses has been mainly due to two reasons — the cut-off date was 7 February, 2007, but many constructions have been done after that so the farm house owners demand regularisation on ‘as is where is basis’ and secondly high rate of conversion cost. As per the existing rule, a minimum Rs 63 lakh per hectare is charged on unauthorised construction.
Farmhouse owners in the city have submitted several representations to the DDA and civic
bodies to relax norms to ease regularisation. Many owners believe that only extension of dates won’t work.
‘A number of issues had been raised in the representation related to relaxation of norms and extending the date. The amendments are being looked into separately,’ said spokesperson of DDA.
It is important to mention that after approval of the DDA, the municipal corporations launched the scheme to regularise unauthorised construction but it received a grim response.
According to an estimate there are over 2,500 farm houses in the area of South Delhi Municipal Corporation but only 45 were regularised in the past one year. The municipal corporations have been directed to consider the only online applications from farm houses for regularisation.
‘The extended date will be applicable only after the municipal corporations announce the operationalisation of online system and separately inform the Union Urban Development Ministry for its functioning,’ said the spokesperson. The ministry’s direction for online sanction of the unauthorised farm houses is to maintain transparency in the system.
The lukewarm response in regularisation of the unauthorised construction in the farm houses has been mainly due to two reasons — the cut-off date was 7 February, 2007, but many constructions have been done after that so the farm house owners demand regularisation on ‘as is where is basis’ and secondly high rate of conversion cost. As per the existing rule, a minimum Rs 63 lakh per hectare is charged on unauthorised construction.