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PRIVATE PARTICIPATION
(By Sh. Sushil Ansal, Chairman, Ansal Group)
INTRODUCTION:
A recent News item in Punjab Kesari on 26.11.2003 (extracted below) draws
attention of any right thinking citizen :
6.5 crores Indians are living under open sky. In Delhi alone
One
Lac
people
sleep
on
Footpaths,
roads
or
beneath
Flyovers
How pathetic is the state of affairs in our country, which has completed 56
years of Independence! The foreigners, who travel in Indian Trains do stare at
the co-passenger Indians, when they look out the morning scene of thousand
of our citizens relieving themselves, sitting semi nude, along the railway lines obviously all EWS Juggi Jompadi dwellers.
aware of such problems and the Central Govt. too had indicated Housing for
all in their five year plans, but the magnitude of problem is too big to be
resolved by the Govt. alone. Obviously public private participation is one of
the solutions to atleast reduce the problem. Haryana Govt. has taken a lead in
the matter thereby enabling availability of around 10,800 EWS plots in private
colonies compulsorily sold at Govt. fixed rates of Rs. 100/- to Rs. 500/- per sq.
yd. by draw of lots held under Govt. supervision and control. This is besides
5900 EWS flats sold by private developers at highly subsidised rates ranging
from Rs. 15000/- to Rs. 50,000/- per flat. We shall look into provisions made
by some of the States as follows:
HARYANA PATTERN:
While granting a Licence for development of any residential colony by a Private
Developer under Haryana Urban Development and Regulations of Urban Areas
Act 1975, a condition of allotting 20% of the number of plots in the colony to
EWS category of persons having a family income upto the prescribed limit (i.e.
Rs. 2500/- p.m as at present) by draw of lots, is imposed, through a Bilateral
agreement of the colonizer with the Haryana Govt. Such plot sizes vary from
50 sq.m. to 125 sq.m. each. The rate of such plots is also fixed by the Govt.
which has been varying from Rs. 100/- per sq. yd. to Rs. 500/- per sq. yd. as
at present and not even levy of external development charges is involved in
such plots.
In the case of Group Housing colonies, the licensee is required to construct
EWS flats not less than 200 sft. each to the extent of 15% of the total number
of flats sanctioned in the scheme to be allotted by draw of lots as above at
Govt. fixed rate of earlier Rs. 15,000/- per flat and presently Rs. 50,000/- per
flat.
MADHYA
PRADESH
(MUNICIPAL
CORPORATION/MUNICIPALITY
societies
in
accordance
with
certain
guidelines.
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UP Development Authorities:
30% of the flats constructed by Private Developers in their Group Housing
Schemes are to be meant for EWS for allotment at HUDCO decided rates.
DELHI BYE-LAWS:
Delhi bye-laws provide of Jugi Jombdi insitu upgradation 25 sq.m. plots (or
18 sq.m. clusters having 7 sq.m. open space provision with 100% coverage),
subject to density restriction of 250 tenaments per hectare.
However, the magnitude of the housing problem is so big that over 50% of
Delhi (the capital of India) stands developed in the shape of unauthorised
colonies, which get regularised through political pressures with passage of
time. The Jugi Jombdi colonies go on increasing and the planners keep
on pondering over the issue.
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b)
The number of occupation permissions issued per year has been @ 864
per year only. (Whereas Gurgaon town planning department alone
issues average of 1500 occupation permissions per year, which is over
and above around similar figure for HUDA and Municipal authorities,
Gurgaon)
c)
Only 62.17% house holds in Delhi are having electricity, toilet, safe and
drinking water facility (which is atleast better than Vishakapatnam,
having 32.3% of such facility)
d)
E.W.S DREAM:
Though Housing for All has been the National Agenda, no simple plan or
solution is sight with the Govt. for this purpose. The problem is more acute of
Economically Weaker Section of our society, who can not afford to buy even
one room apartment or a small 50 sq.m. plot.
Delhi example of requiring 73,920 additional houses (leaving aside the old
backlog of deficient housing) per year compared to issuance of Occupation
Certificates of 864 per year, means, the continued widening of gap between
the supply and demand, and this leads to creation of additional unauthorised
colonies and slums every years besides making Housing for All as more
distant and impossible dream target.
Haryana
Governments
bold
step
of
involving
Private
participation
in
Haryana Govt.
too have allotted 6015 EWS plots (upto 3 Marla) besides providing 2700 such
projects to Haryana Housing Board for construction of EWS flats during the
past three years.
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SUGGESTIONS/POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:
i)
ii)
in
iv)
v)
Announcing/implementing
innovative
schemes
for
planned
vii)
Reduction
of
Stamp
Duty
on
registration
of
properties
to
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