CM promises to regularise all colonies
24 Sept 2012 8:09 AM IST
With an eye on the next year’s election, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday promised to ‘soon’ regularise the remaining 744 unauthorised colonies in the city and assured people that not a single house would be demolished in such settlements. Addressing a public meeting at Nangloi in West Delhi, Dikshit said both the Centre and the city government would find a way out to regularise the unauthorised colonies which came up on land owned by forest and Archaeological Survey of India. The city government on 5 September had issued a notification regularising 895 unauthorised colonies out of the 1,639 such settlements which are home to over 40 lakh residents and constitute a major vote bank. ‘The remaining unauthorised colonies will be regularised soon. We are working hard to provide relief to the residents of such settlements. We will not allow any demolition in the unauthorised colonies as poor people have invested their hard earn money to construct the houses,’ Dikshit said. Dikshit, who had pushed hard to regularise the colonies after the electoral debacle of the Congress in municipal polls held in April, said her government made a ‘historical decision’ to give relief to lakhs of residents of the unauthorised colonies.
Describing regularisation of the colonies as a ‘complex process’, Dikshit said her government ‘acted cautiously’ to avoid any future wrangle.
‘Both the Centre and Delhi government have been sympathetic towards residents of the unauthorised colonies as we follow the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Indira Gandhi. We honour the right of roti, kapra and makan of the citizens of Delhi,’ the Chief Minister said, amid applause from the audience.
Dikshit, who had pushed hard to regularise the colonies after the electoral debacle of the Congress in municipal polls held in April, said large number of families were forced to put up in unauthorised colonies as there was acute shortage of dwelling units in Delhi.
‘I think they have now become eligible for all advanced civic amenities on par with citizens living in rest of the city. Our government and the party are working in tandem towards the goal of regularising the remaining unauthorised colonies,’ she said.
Describing regularisation of the colonies as a ‘complex process’, Dikshit said her government ‘acted cautiously’ to avoid any future wrangle.
‘Both the Centre and Delhi government have been sympathetic towards residents of the unauthorised colonies as we follow the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Indira Gandhi. We honour the right of roti, kapra and makan of the citizens of Delhi,’ the Chief Minister said, amid applause from the audience.
Dikshit, who had pushed hard to regularise the colonies after the electoral debacle of the Congress in municipal polls held in April, said large number of families were forced to put up in unauthorised colonies as there was acute shortage of dwelling units in Delhi.
‘I think they have now become eligible for all advanced civic amenities on par with citizens living in rest of the city. Our government and the party are working in tandem towards the goal of regularising the remaining unauthorised colonies,’ she said.
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