Aashiyana Housing Welfare Society


Regn. No. District Shahdara/Society/170/2013
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Sources from Housing and Urban Development Ministry confirmed on Friday that the changes suggested in Land Pooling Policy in the October, this year, have now been incorporated and the amended Land Pooling Policy will get approved on December 8. With this, the process of rolling out the policy will begin.

“We are hoping that a public notice/notification inviting the landowners to come forward may be issued as early as January next year,” sources said.

As was informed earlier, the Lt Governor of Delhi, Mr Anil Baijal and Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs, Mr Hardeep Singh Puri, on 13th of October had a discussion on implementation of Land Pooling Policy. During this, some changes were suggested to the policy. The news was also covered by leading newspapers.

At the meeting, it was decided that the policy be simplified for speedy execution and that Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will just act as a facilitator and planner as against the role initially envisaged for it. Originally, the land was to be pooled by transferring the land to DDA, under the policy, which was to then undertake further sectoral planning and development of infrastructure in the zones marked under Land Pooling. This would have had financial implications as well, as only one side stamp duty was waived off on the proposed land transfer. At the October meeting, it was decided to do away with this requirement and ensure that land title continued to be with the original landowners.

Also, Mr Puri had recently tweeted that the work on Land Pooling Policy was in progress and final notification was being vetted.

DDA was also asked to immediately initiate spatial and services planning for the five zones covered under Land Pooling Policy, so that the policy could be given immediate effect after finalisation of regulations under the Policy.

DDA was also asked to ensure single-window clearance mechanism for according necessary approvals for speedy implementation at the meeting.

The National Institute of Urban Affairs was given the task to handhold DDA to make the necessary changes and create appropriate regulations for the implementation of the land pooling policy.

Source: Information referred from various online/offline sources.