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One year after the Mumbai high court stayed the allotments
and asked the government to frame new guidelines, the
government has come up with the new guidelines.
The government has kept out corporators, legislators
and MPs; former or present or their immediate families,
and also retired government employees from the list
of those eligible for plots under this coveted regulation.
The general opinion still is that the guidelines lack
transparency with people still having no clue about
how toe allotment process works and politics plays a
more important role than eligibility.
As per the new rules, the government will now have to
issue public notice for plots that it plans to allot
for residential and non-residential purpose. Applications
will be scrutinised.
A sub-committee will be formed under the housing minister
which will then then allots the plot to the party it
feels "needs" the land the most. Currently
the department is headed by Chief Minister Vilasrao
Deshmukh.
Such allotments are going to be restricted to the
2 per cent discretionary quota the committee is empowered
to use under the Maharashtra Housing Area Development
Authority (MHADA) Act.
Co-operative Housing Societies and public trusts may
still get preferential allotment but it will be able
to keep track of the number of such allotments and their
beneficiaries.
This proceedure is expected to introduce greater transparency
since it is different from the earlier allotment process
wherein those close to politicians could get a plot
in their names.
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