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Real Estate & Construction Government - Policy Industry & Economy - Courts/Legal Issues Bill to halt Delhi demolition drive Our Bureau
Applying the brakes Govt to tackle issue of `mixed land use' Plans to enumerate list of `pardonable violations'
New Delhi , May 12 The Centre has come a step closer towards obtaining Parliamentary nod for a year-long moratorium of the court ordered demolition and sealing drive against unauthorised constructions in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The Lok Sabha on Friday unanimously passed the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Bill 2006 that would ensure a one-year status quo on punitive action against unauthorised development existing as on January 1, 2006. Within this one-year period, the Government plans to take all possible measures to finalise norms, policy guidelines, and feasible strategies, to deal with the problem of unauthorised development. The unauthorised development that would have to be dealt with related to mixed land use not conforming to the master plan, construction beyond sanctioned plans, and encroaching by slum and jhuggi-jhompri dwellers, and hawkers and street vendors. The Bill, which was moved by the Urban Development Minister, Mr Jaipal Reddy, today, was given special consideration and exempted from the mandatory seven-day notice period for consideration. "The introduction of this Bill does not mean that we will condone everything. We will use the one-year period to enumerate the list of pardonable violations," Mr Reddy said. He added that the special law was being enacted to enable the Government to take a balanced and well-considered view on policies involving such unauthorised development so that the development of Delhi takes place in a sustainable and planned manner. The law would also provide temporary relief to persons residing or carrying out commercial activities or otherwise dependent upon such unauthorised development till such time as the policy or strategy is finalised. The Minister also said that the report of the Tejender Khanna Committee was in the process of being finalised. (The Committee was constituted in February 2006 to suggest a comprehensive strategy to deal with the unauthorised construction issue.) As regards slum dwellers, the Minister assured "in-situ development" and promised to construct one lakh dwelling units for them in two years. Opposition leaders Mr Vijay Kumar Malhotra of the BJP and Mr Gurudas Dasgupta of the CPI said that the Bill was "belated" even though they supported it. Mr Malhotra said that there was nothing in the Bill to indicate that the unauthorised constructions would be regularised.
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