civic authorities on DLF City and Palam Vihar which have been running behind cows
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GURUGRAM: MCG will take over three private colonies — Sushant Lok-I, Palam Vihar and DLF — over the next two months. This was announced by Haryana government on Wednesday after chief minister ML Khattar held a meeting with senior officials in Chandigarh.
The CM had, in fact, given his approval to the MCG takeover of DLF (phases 1 to 3), Palam Vihar and Sushant Lok-1 in February 2016. But there had been no development on the front for over a year, forcing residents of the three developer areas to stage protests against the delay in takeover a number of times.
A year on, the state government said that “the MCG will take over these colonies in a phased manner between May 15 and June 30”.
“It has also been decided that MCG, the department of town and country planning (DTCP) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), along with the private coloniser, would make an assessment of deficient infrastructure and the maintenance cost for five years in these licensed areas, which primarily is the responsibility of the coloniser,” it said.After the consent of all the stakeholders on the modalities for transfer of colony, the MCG would initiate road improvement works in the colonies to be transferred,” it added.
Though officials of DTCP and urban local bodies department, who were part of the CM’s meeting, remained tightlipped, sources said discussions revolved around the steep renewal licence fee that both the private developers — DLF and Ansal — have to pay to the government in order to get the completion certificate.
“Both DLF and Ansal have taken only part completion certificate and before the actual transfer of these private colonies to MCG takes place, the private developers have to take the final completion certificate. For that they would have to shell out around 2.5% of the licence fee as per the prevailing market rate. It was then decided that they will pay 2.5% of the fee that was prevailing during the year(s) in which they took the part completion certificate,” said sources.
“The DTCP will go ahead and complete the legal process by May 15. Other formalities also need to be streamlined after which these colonies will be taken over,” sources added.When contacted, MCG commissioner V Umashankar told TOI, “The minutes of the meeting are yet to be approved and action will be taken accordingly. However, we will examine the deficiency in infrastructure in the developer areas as well as calculate the cost of maintenance for the next five years.”
While some residents were happy with the development, few seemed to be skeptical of the announcement.
“We want to thank the CM for his prompt response. We had met him on April 12 in Chandigarh and had asked him to expedite the takeover of Sushant Lok 1 so that the non-existent civic infrastructure of our colony can be improved,” said Neelu Sharma, a resident.
However, Atul Mathur, a DLF Phase-III resident, said, “We have been hearing about this impending takeover for the past one year and nothing has happened till date, which is why we are suspicious about Wednesday’s announcement.” A total of 2872.40 acres of plotted area are to be transferred to MCG — 604.20 acres in sectors 53, 27, 43, 28 and 17 of Sushant Lok Phase-I , 633.27 acres in sectors 1, 2 and 3 of Palam Vihar and 1634.93 acres in sectors 24, 25, 25A, 26A and 28 in DLF phases I to III.
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vic authorities on DLF City and Palam Vihar which have been running behind cows