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No land map with government: BJP

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Convert single-storey DDA markets into four-storey ones: Harsh Vardhan

NEW DELHI: Charging that only 16 per cent of the schemes envisaged by the Master Plan for Delhi-2001 had been accomplished, Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said it was a matter of concern that lakhs of people still sleep on the streets of the Capital city.

Dr. Vardhan said that in January 2005 Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had made many suggestions for amendment of the draft Master Plan-2021 by holding a meeting of the Cabinet. But even after two years, he said, these had not been incorporated into the final draft of the new Master Plan.

The suggestions of the people's representatives had been taken during the two-day Special Session of the Assembly, but Dr. Vardhan said it was still difficult to say to what extent their suggestions would be incorporated into the Master Plan.

Expressing surprise that the Government does not have a map to show the ground realities of the city, the BJP leader charged that the Congress Government does not even know how much land in Delhi is earmarked for a particular work and how much land is vacant. This he termed as "shameful and a living example of negligence''.

Demanding that for plots up to 100 square metres in size there should be no compulsions of getting the map approved, he said in villages, unauthorised colonies, resettlement colonies and slums too there should be no need for permission for constructing houses up to 15 metres high.

Dr. Vardhan demanded that all single-storey DDA markets should be made four-storey and the lower two floors be used for shops and the upper two for commercial and office purposes.

While stating that by undertaking a survey of all the vacant land in Delhi the work of its planned development should be handed over to a new high powered agency under the Government, Dr. Vardhan demanded that the DDA be upgraded as NCR Development Authority and be given only the work of planning.

The Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Jagdish Mukhi, demanded that the Chief Minister provide the list of suggestions that she would be sending to the DDA and the Union Urban Development Ministry.

Pointing out that flatted factories had been allowed in up to 400 square metre plots in the Master Plan document, Prof. Mukhi said as large and medium industry had been banned in Delhi, they should be allowed to sub-divide their plots ranging between 500 square metres and 5,000 square metres for running smaller units.

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