JOIN USColonies may get layout plans by independent body
While the municipal bodies have been creating a hue and cry about making layout plans for the unauthorised colonies which have been regularised by Delhi government, it is likely that an independent body may end up preparing them.
Official sources said lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna has decided to appoint the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) to conduct a survey and fix the boundaries of the colonies for the final layout plans.
They will then be submitted to the concerned municipal corporations for approval in order to regularise 895 colonies that have been notified by the city government.
Khanna also asked the municipal bodies not to interfere into the matter till the final plans are submitted to them.
“The LG has discussed at length the funding pattern for conducting the survey and preparing the layout plans,” a source said.
“The sanction for fund has been obtained from the union urban development ministry. A formal letter in this regard will be sent to SPA by this weekend,” added the source.
Municipal corporation leaders have cited several technical bottlenecks in preparing the layout plans.
The town planning department received the first set of maps of the illegal colonies based on satellite images.
The corporation officials added that a lot of work will be required in finalising the layout plans as the maps only covered the built-up area and not the vacant plots.
Moreover, they do not contain vital information like the plot number which could have helped in dispelling confusion among the residents. More than 50 per cent of the 895 colonies fall under the jurisdiction of South Delhi Municipal Corporation.
The leaders of the three corporations met Khanna on Monday demanding regularisation of all the 1,639 colonies on the basis of ‘as it is, where it is’ without charging any cost of land and penalty from the residents.
The delegation, which comprised mayors, leader of Houses and standing committee chairmen of the three civic bodies, demanded that conditions like ‘no-objection-certificate’ from the fire department for regularisation be abolished.