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LG: Land transfer in urban villages open, relocation to benefit lakhs | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: In a move that will ease transfer of ownership rights of agricultural land in 174-plus ‘designated urban villages’, Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Tuesday announced the opening of inheritance-based mutation. He said the decision will have implications for lakhs of residents who were denied this natural right since 2010.
“I have been visiting villages in the capital regularly and have received repeated requests from every village. Various civil society organisations had requested to open the process for mutation… A delegation of seven MPs from Delhi had also made a proposal,” Saxena said at a DDA event in Mangolpuri industrial area. “From Tuesday, the mutation of agricultural land in the urbanized villages of Delhi on the basis of inheritance has been started by the tax authorities as it was done in the past.”
Country change: Camps will be set up from this week
To roll out the process, camps are being set up in villages from this week, starting with 12 villages on Friday. An official said no amendment will be needed in Delhi Development Act to implement the process.
The 174 and thirty villages were declared urbanised from 2017 onwards. However, the process of transferring the title or ownership of the land to family members was stopped when the villages were urbanised and handed over to DDA. Officials argued that after urbanisation, the Delhi Land Revenue Act, under which mutation takes place, was no longer applicable to them.
Bhupinder BazadChairman of Delhi’s Master Plan Committee Dehat Vikas Manch welcomed the decision. “We held protests at two places in Delhi, including Daulatpur village, and allowing mutation was another prominent demand. Our demand also included implementation of Master Plan 2041,” Bazad said.
The LG also laid the foundation stone for the provision of PNG to 21 villages, laid the foundation stone for 41 new projects and inaugurated seven projects spread across 18 villages in northwest Delhi under the Dilli Gramodaya Abhiyan (DGA). The ‘NaMo Drone Didi Scheme‘ was also launched to empower women and help them earn an income for their families.
Till date, 573 projects worth Rs 523 crore have been sanctioned under the DGA scheme, with funds of about Rs 960 crore transferred to DDA for development works in various villages. Of these, 89 are being executed by DDA. Though DDA is the nodal agency, it works in sync with various civic bodies such as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Irrigation and Flood Control.
The development work that began on Tuesday covers villages in northwest Delhi under Kanjhawala, Rohini and Saraswati Vihar subdivisions. Projects being executed include renovation, repair and upgradation of chaupals, public buildings, baarat ghar, community halls, roads, lanes and drain improvement works, and repair and renovation of cremation grounds.
“I have been visiting villages in the capital regularly and have received repeated requests from every village. Various civil society organisations had requested to open the process for mutation… A delegation of seven MPs from Delhi had also made a proposal,” Saxena said at a DDA event in Mangolpuri industrial area. “From Tuesday, the mutation of agricultural land in the urbanized villages of Delhi on the basis of inheritance has been started by the tax authorities as it was done in the past.”
Country change: Camps will be set up from this week
To roll out the process, camps are being set up in villages from this week, starting with 12 villages on Friday. An official said no amendment will be needed in Delhi Development Act to implement the process.
The 174 and thirty villages were declared urbanised from 2017 onwards. However, the process of transferring the title or ownership of the land to family members was stopped when the villages were urbanised and handed over to DDA. Officials argued that after urbanisation, the Delhi Land Revenue Act, under which mutation takes place, was no longer applicable to them.
Bhupinder BazadChairman of Delhi’s Master Plan Committee Dehat Vikas Manch welcomed the decision. “We held protests at two places in Delhi, including Daulatpur village, and allowing mutation was another prominent demand. Our demand also included implementation of Master Plan 2041,” Bazad said.
The LG also laid the foundation stone for the provision of PNG to 21 villages, laid the foundation stone for 41 new projects and inaugurated seven projects spread across 18 villages in northwest Delhi under the Dilli Gramodaya Abhiyan (DGA). The ‘NaMo Drone Didi Scheme‘ was also launched to empower women and help them earn an income for their families.
Till date, 573 projects worth Rs 523 crore have been sanctioned under the DGA scheme, with funds of about Rs 960 crore transferred to DDA for development works in various villages. Of these, 89 are being executed by DDA. Though DDA is the nodal agency, it works in sync with various civic bodies such as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Irrigation and Flood Control.
The development work that began on Tuesday covers villages in northwest Delhi under Kanjhawala, Rohini and Saraswati Vihar subdivisions. Projects being executed include renovation, repair and upgradation of chaupals, public buildings, baarat ghar, community halls, roads, lanes and drain improvement works, and repair and renovation of cremation grounds.
