Congress questions city heritage status, ban on property sale

Questioning the heritage status of the city, the Congress has said thousands of people have been troubled by this status.

The Central government has clarified in Parliament that Chandigarh does not have the status of ‘heritage city’, but only the Capital Complex area comes under the heritage category. The biggest question that arises now is that when the entire city is not a heritage, then why has the UT Administration banned the purchase and sale of share-wise property for the last two years?

Congress district president Surjit Dhillon said that thousands of people of Chandigarh had been troubled by this ban. He said, “Some cancer patients want to sell their property for their treatment, while some need money for their children’s higher education, but due to the arbitrariness of the Administration, they are not able to sell their own property. There is confusion among property dealers and property owners, and many transactions are stuck.”

Dhillon said that due to this impractical order, people were facing tremendous financial crisis. He said those affected had appealed to the DC and the Adviser many times, but no solution had been found. He demanded from the Administration that this unfair ban should be lifted immediately, so that the citizens of Chandigarh could get relief and property transactions were carried out smoothly.

Mani Majra block president Sanjeev Gaba said that if Chandigarh does not have the status of ‘heritage city’, then banning property transactions for two years on this basis was completely wrong.