Haryana govt defines policy parameters on EDC charges

The Haryana Government has defined policy parameters on the recovery of External Development Charges (EDC) and relief programmes for low potential towns lacking services like water supply, sewerage and electrical works.
The policy parameters are in accordance with Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975, a spokesman of Town and Country Planning Department said here today.
He said that the objective of the policy is to encourage the private sector agencies to participate in the planned urbanisation process of towns falling in the low potential zones.
It will accelerate the development of small and medium towns which could serve as generators of economic momentum while at the same time strive to reduce the rate of migration to existing large cities, the spokesman said.

He added that as per the policy parameters, besides projects that would be licenced in future, the policy would also apply to existing licenced projects in the low potential towns of the state.