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Illegal colonies exist on DDA project site: BJP

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NEW DELHI: Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Harsh Vardhan has ridiculed the Delhi Development Authority plan to construct houses for about 73 lakh people at Qutab Garh, Kanjhawala, Bawana, Jagatpur, Mehrauli, Ghummanhera and Bahadurgarh, saying the project will not take off as a large number of unauthorised colonies already exist at these sites.

Dr. Vardhan said the plan would remain on paper only as the areas which have been earmarked for these projects are already occupied by hundreds of unauthorised colonies. ``Is the Congress Government dreaming of constructing new cities by demolishing all these unauthorised colonies?” he asked in a statement issued on Thursday. Stating that the DDA had still not been able to construct houses for all the applicants of the 1979 scheme, Dr. Vardhan said even today about 35,000 applicants of that 28-year-old scheme were awaiting allotment. He said the DDA had failed to live up to the expectations of the people as it had failed to construct adequate number of houses.

Claiming that all the applicants of the Rohini residential scheme had also not been allotted houses or plots, he said the condition of DDA colonies was abysmal. Charging that the new mega city project had only been announced in view of the Assembly elections in Delhi later this year, Dr. Vardhan said while the Chief Minister had also announced that four lakh houses would be constructed for Dalits, not a single house has been provided to them till date. “The Centre and the Delhi Government are misleading the people of unauthorised colonies and villages by making false announcements,” he alleged.

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