Enhancement issue: New scheme to continue till April 30: CM

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, March 16

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today said that the Full and Final Settlement Scheme to resolve the enhancement issue in the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) sectors would continue till April 30; the scheme was started on March 3 this year.

While replying to a calling attention motion of the Chief Whip of the Congress BB Batra and four other MLAs in the Assembly, he said that so far, a benefit of Rs 31.10 crore had been given to 762 plot holders under the scheme, while the plot holders had deposited Rs 19.74 crore.

The HSVP is demanding enhanced compensation from residential plot owners and group housing societies after courts allowed the plea for higher compensation of farmers, whose land had been acquired for carving out sectors.

The Chief Minister said that under the scheme, 15,430 plot holders would be given an enhancement settlement of Rs 823 crore, and they would get benefits up to 20 per cent to 80 per cent. He added that this problem had been going on ever since the HSVP came into existence but it came to the notice of the his government in 2017.

Khattar, while talking about the earlier scheme, said that when the One Time Settlement Scheme was introduced in the state on May 15, 2018, there were about 60,000 defaulters. Under the scheme, 24,163 people were given a rebate of Rs 568 crore at the rate of 40 per cent till July 16, 2018. Subsequently, under the Last and Final Settlement Scheme, a rebate of Rs 93 crore was given to 4,027 people at the rate of 37.50 per cent from November 1, 2018, to November 30, 2018. Thereafter, 15,000 to 16,000 people deposited the money without availing of the rebate. The remaining 15,000 people wanted to know the actual enhancement, for which a three-member committee of retired judges was constituted.

Khattar also apprised the House that the plot holders wanted to know who would give the enhancement rate for the community centre and the identified place for a school or any other commonplace in the sector.

Earlier, Batra said that the judges’ report was not implemented in letter and in spirit, and the HSVP had adopted a pick and choose policy in making calculations, as the allottees were made to bear the enhanced price in case of parks, too. He alleged that the calculations were being made unilaterally.