DDA, Kejriwal and 2 dozen unanswered letters
DDA had notified Kejriwal government on the land pooling policy on May 16th 2015 but the file is stuck with Delhi State Urban Development Department and officials are unable to explain why the govt is not taking any decision on it.
In Short
- DDA has written 24 letter to Kejriwal in the past one year.
- DDA seeks Kejriwal's approval approval regarding land pooling policy.
- DDA notified on the land pooling policy on May 16th 2015.
Delhi's Twitter lover Chief Minister Arvind kejriwal may often be seen tweeting against against PM Narendra Modi, accusing them of restricting Delhi's development. This too, that Kejriwal and his team is shining Delhi but its not going down well with the opposition BJP. But this is something for which even Team Kejriwal does not have an answer to. According to sources in DDA, the land owning authority has written 24 letter is past one year to Kejriwal regarding approval of land pooling policy but the Delhi government isn't paying any heed to anyone of them. Later, LOP Delhi and member-DDA Vijendra Gupta too approved of the same. He even said, "Out of political vendetta, Kejriwal government is sitting over land pooling policy for more than an year. Now, he tweets that Modi ji isn't letting him work but the truth is he is not letting DDA work."
DDA'S LAND POOLING POLICY IN LIMBO
It has been more than an year since DDA notified land pooling policy, on May 16th 2015. After notification Delhi government had to declare 89 villages as urban villages. According to sources the file is stuck with Delhi State Urban Development Department and officials have no reason to explain why the govt is not taking any decision on it. Also, there are 95 villages that have to be declared as developmental area. Demanding immediate implementation of the policy, LOP Vijendra gupta says, "Notifying certain number of villages as urban villages and 95 villages as developmental area and giving the approval once the maps submitted by DDA and those with the state urban department match, is not even a week's job... provided Kejriwal wants to work."
Under the land pooling policy, a land pool will be created by lagally consolidating land parcels owned by private parties by transfer of ownership by DDA. Later the authority will transfer parts of the land back to the developers for developing those areas. Land owning farmers as well as developers say it's a win win policy for them. Though this win-win situation can only be realized if Kejriwal government gets a little unoccupied from twitter.
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