Illegal colonies
At a meeting held in New Delhi on Tuesday, the Union Urban Development Ministry and Delhi government decided to work out an action plan, with new guidelines, for the regularization of all illegal colonies in the city. The task will be accomplished over the next few months, ahead of the assembly polls in Delhi. The [...] Continue Reading »
The colonies that were razed include Nehru Colony, Pandit Colony, Mazdoor Colony, Kuldeep Colony and Kajheri Colony. Notices for eviction had been issued to four of the five colonies on April 17. Slum-dwellers had been asked to vacate the premises within 21 days, teams from the Estate Office and the police had been visiting the [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana government is set to regularize illegal residential colonies that had come into existence by January 1, 2014. A Bill to regularize such colonies will be brought in the Budget session of the Vidhan Sabha. Several lakh residents of hundreds of illegal colonies are bound to get benefited by the move. For illegal colonies [...] Continue Reading »
After the earth shook on Tuesday in east Delhi, residents came out of their houses to safety and was reminded of the 2010 earthquake which killed almost 71 people.The maximum number of unsafe and illegal buildings are in East Delhi. East Delhi is prone to earthquakes due to illegal constructions and unauthorised colonies, where houses [...] Continue Reading »
As assembly poll is approaching closer, Delhi government is planning to freeze all the sealing and demolition of residential and commercial properties in the city. Under the supervision of Shiela Dixit, this particular topic was raised and discussed very recently. According to sources, CM does not want to carry on such action now in the [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- Delhi government has approved regularisation of around 205 unauthorised colonies in the city. The proposal to regularise the settlements were given provisional regularisation certificates four years ago, but were kept pending till now. In this regard, a meeting of the Delhi Cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was held and the [...] Continue Reading »
Finally the Delhi government is set to grant recognition to the unauthorized colonies. The government has plans to regularize 624 unauthorised colonies out of 1,639 such settlements in the first phase of regularization The first phase is likely to be completed soon as all concerned agencies including ASI, Forest Department, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) , [...] Continue Reading »
East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) is to send property tax notices to over six lakh properties under its authority as it is having a financial crunch. The corporation did not have a database on the number of properties liable to pay taxes in East Delhi, therefore, it turned to power discoms and the data received was shocking. [...] Continue Reading »
Ghost colonies in Delhi is now much talked about! A scam has been traced wherein the illegal colonies (ghost colonies) in the city has acquired provisional regularization certificates without government’s knowledge. This came as a shocking news to the government when Delhi Development Authority (DDA) submitted a fact report about existences about ghost colonies. There [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of illegal colonies, villages and other resettlement colonies demanded the government to regularize these type of colonies over a meeting. They also urged to rate the electricity at subsidy basis and provide it to the residents of such areas. Large number of residents participated in the meeting organized by Delhi Vikas Morcha at Tughlakabad. [...] Continue Reading »
