In-situ slum rehabilitation will benefit more than 50 lakh people from pucca homes, Minister says
Tenders will be opened end of March 2022 for six projects of 10,300 households. These are at 10 JJ clusters at Dilshad Garden, Shalimar Bagh-Pitampur, Suraj Park, Rohini, Badli Village, Sector 20, Rohini and opposite Ayurvedic Hospital, Haiderpur, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep S Puri said on 8 Mar 2022.
Another round of tenders will be floated end of March 2022 for four projects of 15,000 households at 8 JJ clusters at Kalkaji Extension, Kusumnpur Pahadi near Vasant Vihar, Mazdoor Kalyan Camp, Okhla and Indira Kalyan Vihar, Okhla.
Puri gave this update on steps being taken to resolve residual difficulties faced in implementation of land pooling scheme in Delhi by removing bottlenecks in Development and Control norms for unauthorized colonies.
Following extensive consultations with stakeholders, he said ‘Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makan’ (replacing huts with houses) Scheme for in-situ slum rehabilitation will benefit more than 50 lakh people by offering pucca (made of bricks) homes to those living in informal settlements in Delhi.
More than 400,000 registrations have been completed by Delhi Development Authority (DDA) under PM-UDAY as well as 12,009 Conveyance Deeds and Authorisation Slips have been issued. The Land Pooling Scheme will benefit another 75 lakh people.
Three projects in Kalkaji, Jailorwala Bagh and Kathputli colony comprising 8,000 houses are already in progress.
The Land Pooling Policy for Delhi was notified in 2018 and the entire Notified Land Pooling area is divided in 129 Sectors. Each Sector is of about 100-200 Ha.
The portal for showing willingness to participate has been opened five times since the launch of Land Pooling Policy and the last date of closing of 5th window was 28 Feb 2022. So far overall, owners of 36% of the land area have shown willingness to pool land.
Sixteen priority sectors have been identified in land pooling area wherein around 70% (or more) area have been pooled (i.e. owners have shown willingness to participate in the Land Pooling. In 4 sectors i.e. Sec 10, Zone N, Sec 2 &3 in Zone P-II and Sec 3 in Zone L, around 70% or more land has been registered and verified for formation of consortium. fiinews.com
