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As was informed earlier, DDA launched its online portal for participation in land pooling on 5th Of Feb, this year. As of now, all landowners have been asked to submit their land pieces within 6 months for further processing.
All the zones have been sub-divided into sectors and per the amended policy, a minimum of 70% landowners needs to come forward for participation in a sector. Also, since the role of DDA has been reduced to that of a facilitator, a consortium will need to be formed to carry on the work within a sector.
Hence, we are aggressively working on educating the landowners regarding the technicalities of the policy and trying to bring them all forward for participation. We proudly inform our members that our society has took the initiative of bringing all the stakeholders under one umbrella and has registered a Non-Profit Confederation(Confederation of Developer Entities) for the same purpose. Our President, Mr Dipender Jain is driving the affairs of this entity.
We also met with DDA officials a couple of days back and have requested them to set-up help desks to cater to the concerns and queries of the landowners regarding their participation.
After approving the land pooling policy in September, last year, DDA is set to launch an online portal for operationalisation and implementation of the policy on 5th of Feb.
Also, a nodal officer has been appointed by DDA for it to coordinate with all service providing agencies, such as, DJB, PWD delhi, Transco etc.
Per officials, ‘integrated sector-based planning approach’ will be followed and that a sector of 250 to 300 hectares of land will be eligible to be developed once a minimum of 70% contiguous land within a sector is assembled.
Keeping in line with the goal of ‘ease of doing business’, a single-window system is being created for the implementation of the policy in DDA. All processes of receiving applications, verifications, grant of approvals and licences, etc., will be completed in a time-bound manner,” the DDA had said earlier.
A two-stage grievance redressal mechanism has been set within DDA for transparent and people-friendly operationalization and implementation of the policy.
DDA Vice-Chairman Tarun Kapoor had told The Hindu earlier this month, “The online portal for the land pooling policy is almost ready and trial runs are on currently.”
Also, DDA has initiated formation of an expert panel. Per reports, the panel formation should have completed by now. It will be comprised of town planners, planning and engineering experts etc. This panel will be responsible for drafting a detailed road-map for the policy. Firstly, zonal plans will be created which will be marked with details on land ear-marked for residential development, community halls, park, and parking and on sewerage and water pipe connectivity. The policy will then be carried forward per these details.
Courtesy: Navbharat Times, The Hindu, and other news sources.
Below are latest updates on the progress been made on the implementation of the policy:
a) Gazette notification has been done of the regulations for operationalization of the Land Policy.
b) National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) has submitted partial zonal development plan to DDA.
c) The topics related to implementation of Land pooling were discussed in a meeting held by DDA under the chairmanship of the VC on 6th of Nov.
d) It is expected that tenders will be invited to set up a single window system by coming week.
Also, after consolidating more than 25 societies under one umbrella, our President, Mr Dipender Jain, has been working on consolidating other landowners to speeden up the participation once DDA opens up the window. Meetings are being held every week for the realization of the same.
After approval from LG, Anil Baijal, last month, the policy has been cleared by the Centre too.
Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister, Mr Hardeep Singh Puri, when asked about the current status of the Policy, by the reporters, stated that he has signed the policy. A senior official of the ministry also confirmed the same.
The land pooling will have to go through two more steps. The Ministry will have to issue a Gazette notification, which should happen anytime this month itself; following which it will go back to DDA for operationalisation.
In the meanwhile, we have begun the process for consolidation of resources for the formation of sector-wise consortiums, to get ready for participation by the time DDA opens up the window.
The final notification that was to be issued by the last week of September has got postponed till October as everyone in Ministry was busy working on Swatch Bharat projects, per unconfirmed reports.
Also, as the next step towards implementation of the policy, our President, Mr Dipender Jain, called up a meeting of Societies to discuss the challenges and opportunities thrown in by the new ‘Consortium’ clause in the policy.
Some of the key points of the meeting are:
BJP MLA Vijender Gupta confirmed that DDA’s land pooling policy has finally been approved. It was cleared at the Authority’s board meeting chaired by the LG, Anil Baijal on Friday.
Land pooling Policy was simplified for speedy execution in October, last year. Delhi Development Authority (DDA) role was limited to that of a facilitator and planner as against the role initially envisaged for it as a part of the simplification of execution of land pooling policy. These changes were accepted later, in December, in a meeting chaired by LG on 21st. DDA was also asked to ensure single-window clearance mechanism for according necessary approvals for speedy implementation.
The policy will now go to the UD Ministry and is likely to be notified within two to three weeks.
Per news published in Dainik Jagaran and Navbharat times on 3rd of September 2018, member of DDA Board of Enquiry, Mr Vijender Gupta has told that LG will be heading a meeting of the board on 7th of September at 10.00 AM at his residence. The main agenda of the meeting will be the implementation/approval of Land pooling policy. During this meeting, all aspects of Land Pooling policy will be discussed in detail and members will present their suggestion and objections regarding the same. LG is expected to clear the modifications on the Land Pooling during this meeting. Once approved, the proposal will be sent to UD Ministry which should then notify it. Per a separate meeting of DDVM with VC DDA, notification can be expected by the last week of September.
Reference:
Dainik Jagaran/3-Sep-2018
Nav Bharat Times/3-Sep-2018
DDVM/Tweeter/30-Aug-2018