DDA vice chairman Udai Pratap Singh
said the policy was stalled for different reasons, but the process would
restart in the next four to five weeks “A board of hearing is going on “He
said, A Swaraj India delegation met Singh on Friday . The delegation claimed
they were assured by Singh that all farmers would be able to take advantage of
land pooling irrespective of landholding size, provided 70% of them agreed in a
cluster. Earlier in March, a Parliamentary panel had pulled up DDA for the
delay in finalising the policy, five years after it was notified.
As a matter of fact direct acquisition
of land is not possible due to continuously increasing price as well as land
owners always complaint for less compensation. In order to make way for this
difficult situation, government has brought up land pooling policies to boost
faster development. High floor area ratio (FAR) and a single-window mechanism
are two main elements of this newly-implemented rule.
Land pooling policy covers the
Greenfield areas in five zones J , K -1, L, N and P-II Coming under the Master
plan of Delhi -2021. To incentivise dense development for effective utilisation
of scarce land resource in the national capital, the policy permits enhanced
FAR of 400 as against the present 150. To promote affordable housing, an
additional FAR of 15 percent is also allowed. About 22000, hectares of land is
expected to be pooled which could meet the needs of about 95 Lakh people. Land
Pooling would catalyse economics, social and civic development of national
capital besides triggering substantial investments and employment generation.
In order to promote affordable and
inclusive housing 15% FAR over and above permissible FAR has also been allowed
for EWS /affordable housing and five lakh dwelling units are Expected to be
create for economically weaker sections of the society .Differential land
return in two categories has been replaced with uniform of land 40:60 basis in
the modified policy, thereby benefiting small land holders /farmers. To keep
pace with new forms of development, provision for achieving a vertical mix of
uses (Residential, commercial , PSP) at building level is introduced .
Additional Development Controls have been introduced to regulate building and
infrastructure aspects of development.