New Delhi: Following Mumbai's example, the Delhi government on Friday decided to provide one-room flats in four-storeyed buildings in place of land to relocated slum dwellers in consonance with the Delhi Master Plan 2021.
The Cabinet, in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, decided to provide 24.5 sq m flats consisting of one living room, one kitchen, one bathroom and a balcony, costing 1.55 lakh each, to each family relocated from the slums, Finance Minister A K Walia said.
The beneficiary family would have to give an advance of Rs 10,000, while Rs 40,000 woud be in the form of a loan that it would have to repay. The state government would shoulder the burden of Rs one lakh for each such unit.
There were 12,000 slum clusters across the city that had over 3 million people living in 6,00,000 jhuggis. However, the first priority would be to provide houses about 2 million people who were already on the waiting list, Mr Walia said.
Such structures would be built in public-private partnership.
Earlier, when land was provided to relocated slum dwellers 200 people could be accomodated in an acre and now 500 people would be settled in the same area.
Nearly 935 acres of land had been illegally occupied by slum dwellers in Delhi -- 700 acres belonged to Delhi Development Authority, 65 to Railways, 11 to the Delhi Cantonment Board, 16 to Delhi government, 23 to Municipal Corporation of Delhi, 13 to the slum department and 76 to Land and Development Office.
A high-powered committee, headed by chief secretary S Raghunathan, which would also have representatives from DDA and the Central government, would decide where and how such structures would be set up.
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