Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor has directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to ensure that the long pending conversion of properties from leasehold to freehold is carried out within two months.
DDA in its meeting chaired by LG VK Saxena, who is also Chairman, DDA, took major decisions that would make owning a house easier for the Economically Weaker Sections, promote green fuel in the city and ensure transparency in the allotment of land for religious purposes, amongst others.
DDA has now decided to make allotment of houses under EWS Category more accessible and easier. To facilitate applicants applying for DDA flats under the EWS category, the authority has approved doing away with the requirement of having annual individual income of less than Rs 3 lakh for the applicants/allottees.
To promote green fuel and fight the menace of air pollution, the authority granted approval to set up an Electric Vehicle charging station on already allotted sites of DDA for Petrol/Diesel Pump & CNG station. It has also decided to levy a lesser license fee for these fuel sites/stations.
To ensure transparency and efficiency in the disposal of religious category plots, the authority has approved disposal of such plots from allotment to auction mode. A decision in this regard has been pending since 2014.
The Plinth area rates (PAR) to be used for calculation of construction cost of flats for the Financial Years 2022-23 was also approved. The PAR for flats offered for the first time in DDA Housing Scheme 2019 and 2021 have been kept unchanged & the PAR used for old inventory flats has been increased by 5%. The last increase in these cases was made in the year 2018.
