The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will launch an online portal for the land pooling policy on February 5, senior officials told The Hindu on Wednesday.
The policy, which was approved by the Centre last October, promises to provide 17 lakh houses in the Capital, including 5 lakh for the economically weaker sections.
The policy will cover “urbanisable areas of urban extensions in 95 villages,” said senior officials.
The DDA had in September last year approved the policy, said a senior DDA official, adding that interested parties can apply for it from next week.
FAR reduced
Under the policy, the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) has been reduced to 200 as opposed to initially proposed FAR of 400.
Officials had maintained that reduction in FAR was done keeping in mind the availability of resources and services required for the development of a particular piece of land. The urban body will act as a “facilitator and planner” under the policy and transfer of land to the DDA, which was proposed earlier, was not required.
A senior official explained that under the policy, an “integrated sector-based planning approach” will be followed and that a sector of 250 to 300 hectares of land will be eligible to be developed once a “minimum of 70% contiguous land within a sector is assembled”.
A landowner must have at least two hectares of land to be eligible to participate in the policy, which aims to accommodate 76 lakh people.
“Keeping in line with the goal of ‘ease of doing business’, a single-window system is being created for the implementation of the policy in DDA. All processes of receiving applications, verifications, grant of approvals and licences, etc., will be completed in a time-bound manner,” the DDA had said earlier.
“A two-stage grievance redressal mechanism within the DDA has been introduced for transparent and people-friendly operationalisation, and implementation of the policy,” it had said.
DDA Vice-Chairman Tarun Kapoor had told The Hindu earlier this month, “The online portal for the land pooling policy is almost ready and trial runs are on currently.”
