UT coming up with new land allotment policy

Ramkrishan Upadhyay

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 31

After a gap of over six years, the UT Administration has  started the process  for formulating a new land allotment policy for various government and non-government  institutions  and  organisations.

The development gains significance as land allotment had almost come to a standstill during  the five-and-a-half-year tenure  of  former UT Administrator Shivraj  V Patil.  Patil had put on hold all cases of allotment to organisations and had allowed allotment only in cases pertaining to government requirement. 

 Patil  had even  declined to allot land for an employees’ housing society and   had directed officers to  seek  land for housing in SAS Nagar and Panchkula.

Sources said a meeting of senior officers had been fixed for next week to discuss the   new policy. The meeting would be chaired by Parimal Rai, Adviser to the Administrator. An officer said many projects were coming up in the city in the near future for which land would have to be allotted to different  stakeholders after the inclusion Chandigarh’s name in the Smart City  list.

Land would also be required for CNG stations in the city, likely to be set up in the city  next year. Land would also be  required for the PGI, Panjab University and PEC  for expansion.

He said the  policy would be formulated to bring transparency in the procedure for the allotment of land.