Panel asks urban body to clear housing projects at earliest

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New Delhi, Mar 27 : A Parliamentary committee has recommended that the Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) clear without taking “undue” time requests for housing projects, saying the capital was facing acute shortage of general pool residential accommodation.

The DUAC awards advice on project proposals it receives from local bodies like the NDMC, the MCD and the DDA.

It also takes up macro-level plans on its own for aesthetic development of Delhi.

“Various projects of the CPWD and housing, including cooperative group housing, should be cleared by the DUAC on a top-priority basis without taking undue time,” the standing committee on the Union Urban Development Ministry, which noted that the CPWD aimed at building 2,377 units by March next year, said in its latest report to the government.

The committee recommended that Delhi’s local bodies clear pending maintenance and infrastructure projects under the CPWD and other group housing societies at the earliest.

Electricity, water and drainage should be provided at the project sites in a time-bound manner so that such housing units do not remain unoccupied because of lack of such facilities, it said.

“The Ministry of Urban Development should take up this matter at the highest level with all agencies concerned so as to avoid unnecessary dilly dallying at the bureaucratic level,” the committee added.

In the current fiscal, an allocation of Rs 184.48 crore, as against Rs 100 crore in 2005-06, was made for carrying out public works.

A special budget allocation of Rs 76.63 crore was made out of the Rs 184.48 crore for upgrading government residential accommodation.