BJP MLA’s demand to regularise 895 colonies

Delhi BJP senior MLAs are demanding a gazette notification for the regularisation of 895 colonies through notification order dated 10 September, 2012.

Senior BJP MLA Harshvardhan said that the Delhi government is adapting the same modus operandi, which was adopted before the 2008 Delhi Assembly polls.

Riding high on the popularity gained from the distribution of provisional certificates to the residents of 1,634 unauthorised colonies after winning the 2008 Assembly elections, the Delhi government had  once again attempted to regularise 895 unauthorised colonies through notification, but still could not notify in gazette. It is known that without a gazette notification, regularisation of colonies would

be null and void.

The opposition claimed that in the absence of the right to register a property and execute sale and purchase, the notification means nothing.

Delhi Urban Development and Revenue Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely had issued a press statement on 25 April stating that the Delhi goverment has fulfilled its promise in respect of registration of sale in transfer of properties in private lands of unauthorised colonies and the permission has been granted for registration in 312 colonies with immediate effect.

‘The definition of private land given by Delhi Urban Development Department has still not been cleared and after the questioning by Delhi High Court in its recent judgement,there is no point in issuing order of opening sale and purchase in 312 colonies on private land,’ said a senior revenue officer.

There are a large number of colonies on private land, where compensation was given by the government but farmers or original allottees have not received the  compensation  and the acquisition is only on papers.

The government will have to de-notify these lands. Besides this, colonies where lands have been vested into Gram Sabha will have to be returned to original allottees which also needed denotification to this effect.

The Urban Development Department has found deficiencies in the land status report of 312 unauthorised colonies, notified on 10 September 2012 for regularisation.