Govt set to regularise 492 ‘illegal’ colonies

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 24

In a bonanza to lakhs of residents, the Manohar Lal Khattar government is set to regularise 492 ‘illegal’ colonies.

The Urban Local Bodies Department has finalised a list of unauthorised colonies, including 217 colonies in 10 municipal corporations, to be regularised, according to the prescribed criteria. “The state government will issue a notification after taking legal opinion on the matter,” sources told The Tribune.

They said that the department had shortlisted 217 of the 384 ‘illegal’ colonies proposed to be regularised in the first phase. These colonies are in Ambala (15), Hisar (14), Karnal (23), Panchkula (6), Panipat (29), Rohtak (71), Sonepat (7) and Yamunanagar (42). As many as 15 colonies in Gurugram and nine in Faridabad had already been regularised.

Similarly, 100 of the initially proposed 223 colonies across 16 municipal councils in the state are set to be regularised. These are in Bhiwani (10), Fatehabad (3), Tohana (2), Sohna (4), Hansi (3), Palwal (2), Rewari (13), Mandi Dabwali (5), Sirsa (5), Bahadurgarh (7), Jind (9), Narwana (10), Kaithal (8), Thanesar (13), Narnaul (4) and Hodal (4).

Among the 43 municipal committees under the jurisdiction of which 185 colonies would be regularised include Gharaunda (21), Bhuna (10), Ratia (9), Ladwa (13),Cheeka (7), Taoru (8), Pehowa (7), Shahbad (12), Punhana (9), Uklana (6) and Meham (5).

The regularisation of illegal colonies had been hanging fire since the time of the previous Congress government of Bhupinder Singh Hooda.