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Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Tuesday said nary existing operation successful the city’s O-zone, lodging an estimated 15 lakh radical crossed 91 unauthorised colonies and astir a twelve villages, volition beryllium demolished.
The assurance came aft the CM chaired a gathering to code the concerns of residents surviving successful the protected, eco-sensitive portion on the 22-km Yamuna floodplain agelong successful Delhi from Wazirabad to Okhla, wherever imperishable operation is banned.
During the meeting, which was attended by Bharatiya Janata Party MPs Ramvir Singh Bidhuri (South Delhi) and Manoj Tiwari (North East Delhi), on with Gandhi Nagar MLA Arvinder Singh Lovely, Municipal Commissioner Sanjeev Khirwar, among others, Ms. Gupta directed authorities to revise the signboards to forestall panic among residents.
Last week, assorted agencies installed signboards crossed the O-zone, informing against operation activities. Following this, residents’ payment associations from respective areas, including Sangam Vihar successful the north, Shastri Park successful the north-east, and Jaitpur successful south-east Delhi, approached elected representatives expressing apprehension implicit the demolition of houses.
Ms. Gupta said she would soon conscionable Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal, on with different nationalist representatives from the Capital, to sermon the issue. The 2 Lok Sabha members said they would question “justice for 15 lakh people” from Mr. Lal.
HC’s May 26 order
The gathering was held against the backdrop of a Delhi High Court bid past period directing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to taxable a study connected demolition measures taken to forestall further unauthorised operation successful the O-zone. The CM clarified that the tribunal had lone flagged ongoing operation activities successful the area.
In its bid connected May 26, the tribunal had noted that residential colonies successful the protected portion are not eligible for regularisation, nary ownership rights are being granted, and that the beingness of residential colonies successful the eco-sensitive portion “would beryllium wholly impermissible”. It volition perceive the substance successful July.
On Monday, Mr. Bidhuri and Mr. Tiwari submitted a memorandum to Lieutenant-Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu urging him to exclude the residential colonies and villages from the O-zone.
