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DDA to construct flats for JJ dwellers

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, FEB 19 . The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has been directed to immediately stop commercial exploitation of a 32-acre price of land in Tehkhand village of the Tughlakabad Assembly segment. Instead it has been asked to prepare an action plan for construction of low priced multi-storeyed flats for JJ dwellers of various rehabilitation camps in the Capital.

The Union Urban Development Secretary, Anil Baijal, following a meeting with the Outer Delhi Member of Parliament, Sajjan Kumar, gave an assurance to this effect. Mr. Kumar had contended that this land was originally planned to be used for re-settlement of JJ dwellers but DDA went ahead and aborted the plan and instead started developing a commercial complex there. The National Building Construction Corporation had even prepared a scheme in 1997 for settlement of the JJ dwellers living in Shashi Garden, JJ camp near Sanjay Jheel in Patparganj. The Slum and JJ Department of MCD had even paid Rs. 2 crore to DDA for construction of such low priced flats for JJ dwellers of Bhoomiheen Camp, Navjeevan Camp, Nehru Camp in Kalkaji and Okhla Industrial Area. However, DDA gave up this plan and since then the issue has been lying in the cold storage. He also demanded that nearly 37 commercial sites of the re-settlement colonies that a still in the possession of DDA should be handed over the Slum and JJ Department to which Mr. Baijal issued necessary instructions to DDA.

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