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NEW DELHI
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Tuesday said that the long-vacant 7,400 Economically Weaker Section (EWS) flats successful north-west Delhi’s Bhalswa will soon be allotted to eligible slum-dwelling families, terming the years-long hold a “grave injustice to mediocre families”.
Ms. Gupta reviewed the information of the flats, which person remained unoccupied since 2016. The units are portion of a wider batch of 52,584 flats built nether the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) by the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC). They were handed implicit to the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) successful 2016 for allotment nether the Delhi Slum Rehabilitation and Relocation Policy 2015, aboriginal renamed Mukhyamantri Awaas Yojana in 2019.
The CM directed officials to expedite all pending enactment truthful the flats tin beryllium made acceptable for contiguous allotment. She besides announced plans to redevelop the Bhalswa complex into a modern residential portion with commercialized areas, e-rickshaw charging points, parking facilities, healthcare services, anganwadi centres and landscaped parks. “We are creating a lodging exemplary that was erstwhile lone a imagination for lakhs of mediocre families. This imagination volition beryllium realised during our government’s tenure,” she said. She criticised previous governments for leaving the structures idle for astir a decade. “They failed to allot adjacent a azygous unit. Thousands of families could person been surviving with dignity and comfort, but instead, these flats deteriorated and materials disappeared from inside,” she said.
Prolonged delay
In 2019, DUSIB surveyed slum clusters wrong a 5-km radius and identified at slightest 18,000 eligible families. All were issued allotment letters and asked to wage ₹1,12,000 positive ₹30,000 arsenic a one-time attraction charge. For Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) families, the outgo was reduced to ₹1,000, with lone attraction payable. Various land-owning agencies, including the Delhi government, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), were required to wage for flats constructed connected their land.
However, surveys connected cardinal authorities and DDA onshore were halted aft the DDA requested a pause. A erstwhile DUSIB committee subordinate said rehabilitation astatine Bhalswa stalled due to the fact that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) withheld permission, insisting that an MoU betwixt the Centre and the Delhi authorities beryllium signed earlier relocation. The Centre wanted the flats utilized nether the Affordable Rental Housing Complex (ARHC) strategy launched successful 2020, starring to further delays. Even aft Delhi agreed to motion the MoU successful 2022, the process did not move, helium said.
Around 10,000 beneficiaries paid the required magnitude but ne'er received allotments. Theft and structural harm followed, prompting DUSIB to transportation retired repairs and deploy guards. With the existent government’s renewed push, the task is being revived, and families whitethorn yet person the homes promised to them, the erstwhile committee subordinate said.
