Fourth floor of buildings will not be demolished : Ajay Maken
9 01 2008Union Minister of State for Urban Development Ajay Maken said on Tuesday that the fourth floor of buildings will not be demolished provided the height of the building does not exceed the stipulated 15 metres.
Maken said courts have accepted the provisions in the Masterplan 2021 in which fourth floors of buildings which do not exceed 15 metres have been regularised. He said the Masterplan has further relaxed height limits for group housing societies, allowing them to be constructed up to 18 floors. Houses or bungalows on individual plots are allowed to be 15 metres high, a few metres above the earlier 11.5 metres as laid down in Masterplan 2001.
Maken also said the stage has been set for regularising unauthorised colonies, barring the more affluent ones. He said, “We have issued fresh guidelines to the Delhi government on October 5, 2007. They will have to draw up a list of the colonies to be regularised. This list has to be verified. In July 2004, the first aerial survey of Delhi was made and we found that many of the 1,539 colonies to be regularised did not even exist. A second survey will be conducted now to determine the exact number of such colonies. There is not much data on this. Unauthorised colonies built till March 2002 are eligible for regularisation.”
It was also mandatory earlier for RWAs to submit plans on how to utilise the 15 per cent earmarked in colonies for utility institutions like schools, dispensaries etc. Maken said, “How can residents do so much planning? The DDA will have to do it.”
Recently, the Delhi government has placed advertisements in newspapers asking RWAs to apply for the regularisation process. In these advertisements, they announced the older guidelines and not the revised ones, sources said. The government had also said that 1,539 colonies would be regularised, when it is still uncertain how many colonies will ultimately be eligible. The second aerial survey will decide this, sources said.
Sources : http://www.expressindia.com/
