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Stop demolition drive in illegal colonies: Sajjan

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NEW DELHI: Member of Parliament from Outer Delhi Sajjan Kumar led a delegation of MLAs from his constituency to the Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Tuesday to demand an immediate stoppage to the ongoing demolition drive by the Delhi Development Authority and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in the villages and unauthorised colonies.

Addressing a press conference after the meeting, Mr. Kumar said the delegation told Mr. Khanna that the action in unauthorised colonies was unwarranted as the Union Government had announced its decision to regularise 1,500 unauthorised colonies under the new Master Plan for Delhi-2021 and the Delhi Government had also created a special fund with a corpus of Rs. 2,800 crore for their planned development.

The delegation also demanded that whenever there is a need to demolish some structures for development of these colonies, then the affected families should be compensated in kind with plots and flats as mere monetary compensation does not equally serve the purpose. "In fact we demanded that the affected families should be given out of turn allotment of flats and plots by DDA,'' Mr. Kumar said.

During the meeting, the delegation also pointed out that that while a clear announcement about regularisation of the extended Abadi of the villages due to natural growth has been made in the new Master Plan, the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled MCD is notifying the commercial and mixed land use in villages on the basis of the Lal Dora demarcated in the year 1908. "This leaves out about 80 per cent of the village population from the purview of development,'' the MP claimed.

Mr. Kumar said the Lieutenant-Governor directed the DDA to stop all demolitions and told the MCD that Master Plan roads of the villages and extended abadi area be notified for commercial and mixed land use.

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