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Supreme Court had not stayed Act, clarifies Centre

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Govt. open to amending the law and the Constitution, says Reddy

Union Minister S. Jaipal Reddy

NEW DELHI: The Union Government on Monday informed the Lok Sabha that the Supreme Court had not stayed the application of the Delhi Laws Special Provisions Act passed by Parliament earlier this year. Responding to a calling attention motion on the Act in the context of observations made by judicial authorities, Union Minister for Urban Development S. Jaipal Reddy said the Government was open to amending the law and the Constitution if necessary.

Besides detailing the operative parts of the judgment, Mr. Reddy in his written statement told the House that the Government had initiated action to finalise norms and policy guidelines to deal with the complex problem of mixed land use and unauthorised construction.

The Government, he said, had already issued two public notices on July 21 this year in pursuance of the recommendations of the Khanna Committee Report proposing modifications in the Master Plan for Delhi-2001 in respect of development control norms for residential plotted development and mixed land use policy. Further, the Minister said, the Government was making all possible efforts to complete the statutory process for finalising these amendments to the Master Plan-2001. Suitable directions have also been issued to the concerned local authorities to take all necessary preparatory and consequential action to give effect to the proposed amendments.

Referring to Mr. Malhotra's criticism of the Govt., he said the prevailing problem would not have arisen had the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) drawn up the Master Plan-2021.

About Mr. Malhotra's specific demand for amnesty, the Minister pointed out that that the NDA Government had rejected his report making out a case for sweeping amnesty.

With Sandeep Dikshit and Nikhil Kumar commenting on the Court order, the Minister said both the judiciary and the legislature should observe restraint

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