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Bhagidari to reach regularised colonies

Staff Reporter

“This silent revolution has provided Delhi a unique recognition”

NEW DELHI: A few days after easing the land title norms for unauthorised colonies which have not been regularised all these years and where not much development activities could therefore take place, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday declared that “Bhagidari” activists would play a crucial role in extending community services in these colonies.

Ms. Dikshit, who was delivering the valedictory address at the Diamond Jubilee Workshops under the Bhagidari initiative, said the credit for successful implementation of the Delhi Government’s schemes and programmes goes to citizen-government partnership under the Bhagidari programme.

She said the residents’ welfare associations had also been undertaking development projects in keeping with local requirements under the “My Delhi I Care Fund”.

“During the past 20 months, 107 development projects have been initiated with an amount of Rs.2.27 crore through My Delhi I Care Fund,” she said, exhorting all RWAs to make full use of the fund since it is the most feasible and easy medium to get development works completed at the grassroots level.

Describing the Bhagidari movement as a “silent revolution”, the Chief Minister said it had provided a unique recognition to Delhi and establish greater transparency and accountability during the past nine years. Stating that lakhs of people were living in the Capital’s unauthorised colonies and slums, Ms. Dikshit said their regularisation is on the cards. She said cooperation, guidance and concerted consultation of the RWAs would be important now in extending civic services and community services in these colonies which are to be regularised.

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