Decades-old rent control laws continue to strain Delhi landlords, limiting returns

Several landlords successful Delhi are inactive receiving rents fixed decades ago, contempt spot prices and surviving costs having surged crossed the city. This is owed to the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958, a instrumentality introduced aft Partition to support tenants during a terrible lodging crisis.

While it served an important intent astatine the time, the instrumentality contiguous has near galore spot owners stuck with negligible returns, constricted rights implicit their ain properties, and years of litigation.