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875 crore for development works

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) at its meeting on Thursday decided to spend about Rs.875 crore on various development works, besides Rs.8 crore on street lights and conservancy in different HUDA sectors across the State during the current financial year, according to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

The policy of regularising nursing homes running from residential premises has also been approved. However, this relief would be available only to those nursing homes which fulfil the prescribed criteria. It has also been decided to allot nursing homes/clinic sites only to qualified doctors in future. Earlier, these were sold through auction open to any person. Both these decisions would meet a long-pending demand of the medical community and go a long way in providing medical facilities to people near their doorsteps, Mr. Hooda added.

Giving details, the Chief Minister said use of residential buildings in urban sectors developed by HUDA would be allowed for setting up nursing homes provided the residential premises were owned by the doctor(s) applying for permission to set up nursing homes or their family members – that is, spouse/parents/children.

Such doctors would have to give one-time conversion charges. However, permission could also be given to tenant doctors provided they fulfilled other requirements. Such doctors would have to pay an annual fee equivalent to 10 per cent of conversion charges, he added.

Permission would be granted only to those nursing homes in the residential area which are having a minimum size of plot of 500 sq. yards and are located on roads having a width of at least 30 metres and the building for which permission had been sought should have a parking space for four-wheeled vehicles at least equal to the number of indoor beds plus two.

Parking space might be inside or outside of the building or both, he added.

Mr. Hooda said day care centres would be made a part of old-age homes which would be constructed by HUDA on land measuring one acre in each urban estate from its own resources.

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