The Delhi Excessive Court docket has as soon as once more pulled up the Delhi authorities and the Centre over the delay in any resolution on regularisation of Sainik Farms in South Delhi.
Throughout a listening to on Wednesday, a bench of Chief Justice D Ok Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela noticed the authorities weren’t taking any remaining resolution on the problem and simply “passing the buck”, which in the end “stops on the court docket”.
“The fundamental query stays as to what the central authorities in session with the state authorities is doing for regularising these colonies. You must make a remaining resolution. It seems once more that everyone is making an attempt to go the buck and as occurs in these issues, the buck in the end stops on the court docket,” the bench noticed.
Throughout Wednesday’s listening to, the court docket requested why the authorities had not been capable of convey a easy laws to mitigate the issues of the residents.
“First and final thing we need to know is: what’s it that you’re doing about these colonies? We won’t be extra clearer than this. They’ve been hanging fireplace with out having the ability to lay a brick even for repairs and but you might be persevering with to allow them to reside the way in which they’re for the final 10-15 years,” the bench mentioned.
Delhi HC added, “You recognize very effectively why they’re present, how they’re present until now. Not one of the authorities will do something to mitigate the issues.”
The bench additionally known as on officers within the Union Ministry of Housing and City Affairs, Delhi authorities, Delhi Growth Authority (DDA) and Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD) to take a seat collectively to resolve on the destiny of its residents who had petitioned the excessive court docket.
The Delhi excessive court docket had beforehand rapped the Delhi NCT authorities in March for its failure to point a timeline to regularise the Sainik Farm colony.
South Delhi’s Sainik Farms is an unauthorised colony. The world has remained within the unauthorised standing for the reason that Nineteen Eighties.
An unauthorised colony in Delhi refers to residential areas which have come up however on land that is not been permitted for residential use in Delhi’s grasp plan. On account of this, these colonies typically face infrastructure points.
As reported by The Indian Specific, Delhi has round 1,800 unauthorised colonies, of which 1,731 have been slated for re-development work beneath the Pradhan Mantri-Unauthorised Colonies in Delhi Awas Adhikar Yojana (PM-UDAY).
Nevertheless, Sainik Farms, together with Mahendru Enclave, and Anant Ram Dairy, was excluded from this listing over land use violations.
(With inputs from PTI)
