40-45 pc unauthorised colonies won't be regularised, blame Central notification: Delhi Cong

Delhi Congress leader Arvinder Lovely alleged on Friday that nearly 40-45 per cent unauthorised colonies in the national capital will not be regularised due to a notification issued by the BJP-ruled Centre.

The Narendra Modi government got a bill passed in the Lok Sabha to regularise 1,731 unauthorised colonies, but 40-45 per cent of them cannot be regularised as they are near the Yamuna riverbed or historical monuments, Lovely claimed.

Regularisation of these colonies was barred according to a notification issued by the Centre last month, he said at a press conference.

"Around 40-45 per cent unauthorised colonies including those in Okhla, Tughalqabad, Buland Masjid and a majority of areas in east and south Delhi will not come under the purview of regularisation," he claimed.

On Thursday, the Lok Sabha passed a bill to grant ownership rights to residents of the national capital's 1,731 unauthorised colonies.

Demanding that the government withdraw its gazette notification issued last month, Delhi Congress president Subhash Chopra said, "Unauthorized colonies in Delhi should be regularized on the basis of the 'as it is, where it is' policy adopted by Indira Gandhi in 1976-77."