Aashiyana Housing Welfare Society


Regn. No. District Shahdara/Society/170/2013
For family, friends and colleagues

Society President, Mr Dippender Jain along with 5 other participants (representatives from NARDECO, CREDAI, FICCI etc) were invited for a meeting with Mr Manoj Joshi (Secretary, MoHUA) along with VC, DDA and other senior officials from MoHUA and DDA, on Feb 05 (Saturday). The objective was to develop an understanding of the reasons behind the slow progress on Delhi’s land pooling.

Some of the key points were:

  1. VC, DDA informed all that they sent a proposal to the ministry for making participation compulsory for the remaining landowners in a sector once the 70% criteria is met. He also informed that he received a query from the ministry on this proposal, to which he has reverted.
  2. Issue of low FAR was raised by a couple of participants and suggestions were made to raise it till atleast 3. The proposal was taken under consideration.
  3. We informed them that the participation will increase only after we are able to implement the policy in atleast one of the sectors. For which they will need to issue the Consortium notice first. We also informed them that we believe we will need to work on the solutions to the technical anomalies in the policy as and when we approach them, but DDA will need to move the policy forward.

All the points raised by the participants were duly noted. They will further discuss on the suggestions made, among themselves. We are hoping for an outcome within a week or two.      

Also, DDA has released its budget for the year, in which a lot of focus and amount has been put towards the development of infrastructure for Land Pooling zones. The end date for the completion of UER-II has been set for next year. This UER-II forms the North side boundary of our Sector and would provide seamless connectivity between all the land pooling zones while connecting Delhi with neighboring states, from Mahipalpur on Delhi-Gurgaon expressway to Chandigarh.