Development works to start in 40 more illegal colonies

The Delhi Government has started the process of regularisation of 40 more unauthorised colonies and will start development works shortly, said Urban Development and Revenue Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely here on Monday. Incidentally, these 131 unauthorised colonies are those which could not be regularised earlier as some part of them comprise land belonging to the Forest Department, Delhi Ridge or the Archaeological Survey of India. “With the 40 new colonies, the government has now cleared the path for undertaking development works in 1,026 unauthorised colonies out of the 1,218 unauthorised colonies that were issued provisional regularisation certificates in the year 2008,” said Mr. Lovely. “The Revenue Department has also been empowered to de-notify private land which would allow people residing on such land in unauthorised colonies to get sale of property registered as per our earlier order,” he said.