DDA's turn to explain expenditure of Rs 550 crore used for development

DDA's turn to explain expenditure of Rs 550 crore used for development

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, October 29, 2014   |    3 Comments


New Delhi : Expectation from DDA (Delhi Development Authority) to proclaim a residential plot scheme and to keep over 25,000 promising in a void for three decades however, the painful situation is that the DDA’s fail to declare how much it has been used on the development of the residential area wherever these beneficiaries/remnants that obtain was to make their dream homes and this can be the tragedy story of the Rohini Residential Scheme that is not yet over.

The scheme was proclaimed in the year 1981, a prior year the Asian Games in Delhi and a year after Indira Gandhi rode the ‘Garibi Hatao’ wave back into power. A group of 82,348 applicants had enlisted and the first draw was held in 1982. Erratically, consequent draws were held till 2007 and allotted 55,169 plots under all categories to applicants. The remaining 25,300 applicants were continued holding up where a fifth of them were perished and tenth of them are more than 75 years of age.

In recent years, the issue has passed through the legal system and eventually reached the Supreme Court where the next hearing is on November 8. The DDA answered to Supreme Court that it has been used concerning 550 crore for the development of ‘ghost colonies’ under the cursed Rohini Residential Scheme which sounds good considering roads, water mains, sewer lines, electricity poles and other facilities required by the four segments 34, 35, 36 and 37 where 25,300 beneficiaries were to be given for residential plots however, the region was an empty area of farmland and bushes thus, used a few hundred crore on development.

In May 2013, DDA has submitted an affidavit to SC proclaimed that; it has spent overall Rs 550.69 crore for the development of four segments of Rohini housing scheme, where Rs 458.84 crore used on the development of civic amenities and Rs 91.85 crore on building houses. An RTI application is filed by the man heading legal campaign and beneficiaries, Rahul Gupta. The same month seeking details of the Residential development works carried out by DDA in the four segments was answered six months later. On November 20, 2013, the DDA said that it had utilized 1.90 crore as response where as on December 3, 2013 DDA had said that, they has spent 24.21 crore, considering the total amount to Rs 26.12 crore. Subsequently, Rahul Gupta, Central Information Commission, blamed DDA for providing incomplete details regarding expenditure details under RTI Act and looking for activity against the agency officials.

The wait binding on the beneficiaries of the scheme has turned extravagant meanwhile. The vast majority are not in a position to bare the price even if they allot a piece of land. In 1981, the DDA had offered the plots at the rate of 100 to 200 per sq ft and now it is indicated as Rs 20,000 per sq ft.

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