Proposal moved in Assembly to bring DDA within Delhi government ambit

In a bid to improve infrastructural development in the national Capital, the Delhi Assembly on Friday passed a private member bill to bring Delhi Development Authority (DDA) under the control of the Delhi government, amid claims that the land-owning agency has no free land for infrastructural development. 

AAP MLA Sanjiv Jha moved a resolution in the Assembly seeking DDA to come under the Delhi government. 

Moving the proposal on Friday, Jha said: “The DDA has failed to execute the master plan and it is responsible for the condition of the unauthorised colonies. If Delhi government needs land, it has to place a request before the DDA.”

He alleged that corruption in DDA has casted a shadow on regularisation of unauthorised colonies.

“DDA’s land pooling policy doesn’t say how it will do land pooling in unauthorised colonies,” the AAP lawmaker said.

Another AAP MLA, Dinesh Mohaniya told the Delhi Assembly that the elected government in Delhi has <g data-gr-id="33">limited</g> mandate to carry out development works. “Delhi government has made a payment of Rs 210 crore for buying land for construction of schools and hospitals. The same money could have been used aid other development works.

“The public has voted for the Delhi government, but DDA reports to the Lieutenant Governor,” the AAP legislator from Sangam Vihar said. 

However, the BJP in the Delhi Assembly snubbed at the AAP, saying that the DDA can’t be brought under the control of Arvind Kejriwal-led government.

“President of India has the ownership of the land acquired in Delhi. His representative, Lieutenant Governor has been vested with the power to administer the same,” BJP legislator from Vishwas Nagar, Om Prakash Sharma, said.