New Delhi: Union Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy on Saturday announced that the process of regularisation of unauthorised colonies in Delhi would be carried out in a three months' time.
The announcement came less than a month after his deputy Ajay Maken told Parliament that there was no time frame to regularise some 1,500 unauthorised colonies.
"We believe that the regularisation process will take place in three months," Reddy told PTI when asked how much time it would take for the government to carry out the regularisation approved on February 8.
In the current session, Maken told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the government has fixed no deadline to complete the job, inviting fierce criticism from the BJP outside Parliament ahead of municipal elections in Delhi.
Citing obligations under the election code Reddy, however, parried questions as to whether the Centre has made up its mind to regularise posh Sainik Farms, Mahendru Enclave and Anant Ram Dairy colonies as well.
But the minister advocated that high conversion charges should be charged from developers raising colonies on farmland.
Charges related to infrastructure and to water, power and sewage should also be adequately increased, he told a national conference on the UPA's flagship Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
He referred to Delhi's new master plan that requires developers to provide more than one-third of dwelling units to disadvantaged groups in residential buildings they raise.
Revenue from high conversion charges should be used in welfare schemes for the poverty-stricken people, he added. "It is to be decided by the states that how much high such charges should be," Reddy said.
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