Delhi: BJP and AAP governments permit 46,000 flats to stay unoccupied

Underneath the Jawaharlal Nehru City Renewal Mission (JNURM), the UPA authorities headed by late Dr Manmohan Singh had accredited the development of 52,000 flats in Delhi for economically backward residents and slum dwellers.

The price of development of the clusters of flats in locations like Dwarka, Bawana, Sultanpuri, Jahangirpuri, Ghosa and so on was estimated to be Rs 2,415 crore. As many as 35,744 flats had been really accomplished and had been prepared for allotment, however the Delhi authorities below AAP (Aam Aadmi Celebration) and the BJP-led Central authorities didn’t allot them till December 2024.

Each governments on the state and Centre had been apparently not eager to allot the flats and provides due credit score to the Congress-led UPA authorities. They dragged their ft till 2020, when the Centre issued a notification to allot the flats to migrant employees and economically backward residents.

The AAP authorities, nevertheless, objected and sought to allot the flats to individuals dwelling in jhuggis and jhopdis (makeshift hutments in slums). Within the occasion, the dispute was by no means resolved and the flats, over 30,000 accomplished and 16,000 extra below development, had been by no means allotted.

Delhi Excessive Courtroom intervened in September 2023, and ordered the organising of a high-power committee comprising officers of the Delhi and Union governments, to resolve the difficulty.