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Breather for Vyom Khand applicants
HUNDREDS OF applicants of Vyom Khand Housing Scheme can heave a sigh of relief. The Supreme Court, according to LDA Vice Chairman BB Singh, has confirmed that its stay on the scheme is only on the acquisition of land challenged by the petitioner in his writ in this connection.
HUNDREDS OF applicants of Vyom Khand Housing Scheme can heave a sigh of relief.
The Supreme Court, according to LDA Vice Chairman BB Singh, has confirmed that its stay on the scheme is only on the acquisition of land challenged by the petitioner in his writ in this connection.
The court reprieve has come as a shot in the arm of the LDA. “We had collected over Rs 54 crore by way of registration money from the applicants under the proposed scheme and some 200 of them have already applied for refund of their booking amount because of the apex’s court stay,” said Singh. He said following SC green signal, the LDA would go-ahead and organise the lottery draw for the scheme possibly on May 22.
“We also plan to develop another stretch of the total 750 acre that we had acquired under the scheme,” said the LDA V-C adding that a suitable name for the proposed housing scheme was under consideration.
On March 30, the apex court on a petition, filed by local people, had ordered for maintaining the status quo on the land in question.
The petitioners had alleged that the authorities while finalising the final master plan for the city ignored an internal committee report on the area.
Subsequently, the LDA had to abandon its plan to allot some 600 plots in Vyom Khand of Gomti Nagar through a lottery draw on March 29, 30 and 31. According to reports some 9,480 people had applied for a plot under the scheme with the development agency. This included 2, 458 aspirants, who had applied for a 160 square metre plot, 3,936 contenders for a 200 sqmt plots, 1861 hopefuls for a 300 sqmt plot and another 1225 for a 288 square metre plot under the scheme.
Meanwhile in another significant development the LDA VC affected an internal reshuffle in the department’s enforcement wing on the eve of crackdown against more than 300 illegal constructions in the State capital.
The building and enforcement sections, which were clubbed and placed under one engineer in-charge, have once again been separated as they were under the earlier arrangement. “I had noticed that work in both the enforcement and building section was not being carried out very affectively, hence, I decided to decentralize it,” said Singh.