Mohali MLA Kulwant Singh Raises Need-Based Policy Issue in Punjab Assembly
Seeks regularisation of need based changes made in Housing Board flats
MOHALI: During the ongoing monsokn session of the Punjab Legislative Assembly Mohali MLA Kulwant Singh today raised the issue of the Need-Based Policy concerning LIG and MIG flats in Mohali.
He said that around 50 years ago, when GMADA did not exist, the Housing Department had constructed LIG flats in Mohali. In nearly 10,000 of these flats, residents had constructed an additional room. Due to this additional construction, the owners are unable to obtain NOCs for these flats. As a result, they can neither sell nor mortgage their properties.
Following the Chandigarh pattern, a policy was formulated in 2011. However, as the policy was stayed, a revised Need-Based Policy was introduced in 2015, under which a fee of Re 1 per square foot was to be charged for the additional construction carried out by residents. The policy was subsequently withdrawn, but no solution has been found to the issue to date.
The concerned department has informed that the matter is under consideration and that a committee has been constituted to look into it.
Addressing Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan during the Assembly session, MLA Kulwant Singh said that committees are generally constituted when policy parameters have to be formulated. However, since a policy has already been framed in this regard, he questioned why there was a delay in implementing the Need-Based Policy.
Speaking in the Assembly, MLA Kulwant Singh asked the concerned ministers whether the Need-Based Policy issue would ever be resolved, whether the matter would actually move forward, and, if so, by when a decision could be expected.
It is pertinent to mention that MLA Kulwant Singh also asked Housing and Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Mundian whether the government was considering formulating a policy to permit construction of a first floor, in addition to the ground floor, on commercial booth sites allotted by GMADA in Phases 1 to 11 and Sectors 66 to 73 of Mohali. He pointed out that permission for constructing a first floor is already available for booths allotted in other sectors and Urban Estates of Mohali. He sought to know whether such a policy was under consideration and, if so, by when it would be implemented.
In addition, MLA Kulwant Singh asked whether the government was considering a policy to partially regularise the additional construction carried out by owners of houses constructed and allotted by GMADA in Mohali, beyond the approved construction, under a Need-Based Policy, and, if so, by when it would be implemented.
Responding to the issues raised, Punjab Cabinet Minister Hardeep Singh Mundian assured the Assembly that the Need-Based Policy would be implemented soon.
It is worth mentioning that MLA Kulwant Singh has consistently been raising issues related to the Mohali Assembly constituency during sessions of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, with the objective of getting them resolved.
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