Soon Regularization of 1,639 Colonies, Mahavir Enclave is one of Them !!

There is a good news for all people who are resident of Colonies which are soon going to be Regularized by Delhi Government. Keeping in mind next year’s assembly elections, the government has cleared a proposal to relax the guidelines laid down in 2008 for regularization of 1,639 colonies.

This proposal has been sent to the ministry of urban development for formal approval. Boundaries of as many as 1,018 colonies will be fixed using the 2007 survey and the government proposes to provide facilities available in regularized colonies after boundary fixation itself. Below is some part of that news which appear on Times of India of 11th May 2012.

The proposal has been sent to the ministry of urban development for formal approval. Boundaries of as many as 1,018 colonies will be fixed using the 2007 survey. To woo the voters, the government proposes to provide facilities available in regularized colonies after boundary fixation itself. However, formal regularization is possible only after the three new municipal corporations clear the layout plans. Since BJP is in the saddle in all three, the Congress is jittery that it may not be able to push for an early clearance.

The Cabinet decision to amend the guidelines follows a meeting last week between Delhi’s urban development minister AK Walia and Union urban development minister Kamal Nath. Nath has already given an in-principle approval.

It has taken the government four years to realize that the boundary fixation norms appear unrealistic. When the state urban development department got down to fixing the boundaries of the 1,018 colonies where all clearances had been received, it found that if the 2002 aerial photographs were made the basis of boundary fixation, dense pockets of the colonies would be left out. So far, aerial maps of about 580 colonies have been acquired from the Survey of India.

The proposal that seeks fixation of boundaries based on aerial survey photographs of 2007 cites the fact that applications from the RWAs in response to regulations dated March 24, 2008 were received between November 2007 and April 2008. As a result, large portions of the area covered by the layout plans submitted by the RWAs would be left out if boundaries were fixed as per the 2002 aerial photographs. Moreover, in 2002 there was no defined boundary of the colonies and the guidelines too don’t lay down adefinition.

Note: Mahavir Enclave is also in the list of 1,639 Colonies.

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