The third meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee of a group of ministers held on Friday to finalise the draft policy of unauthorized colonies. The meeting was chaired by Punjab health minister Brahm Mohindra during which the group of minister unanimously approved the draft policy.
“It will now going to be presented before the Punjab Cabinet for final approval.
The Committee in principal decided that after 2018, no un-authorised colony in Punjab will be regularised at any cost”, said an official spokesperson.
Brahm Mohindra, also the Chairman of the Cabinet sub-committee said the unauthorised colonies developed up to 1 April, 2018 shall be regularised.
He said the policy shall be open for a period of 12 months from the date of notification.
Mohindra also added that the colonisers who could not apply under previous policies shall apply under this policy for regularisation of their colonies.
“The regularisation charges earlier paid under the pervious policies if any shall be adjusted under this policy. Liberal charges are fixed for regularisation of colonies”, said the minister, It was also added that an amount of charges received from the regularisation of a particular colony shall be used for providing basic infrastructure to that particular colony only.
Also, the payment of charges shall be done in installments within a period of one year. The committees of officers shall be constituted to regularise the colonies and plots within as well as outside of municipal limits.
Each committee will scrutinise the cases within the time limit of three months.
The Resident’s Welfare Associations (RWA) shall be formed for each unauthorised colony by its residents and the RWA can also submit application for regularisation of the colony to the concerned authority.
The stringent action will be taken against the coloniser of a colony which comes after 1 April, 2018, added the official spokesperson.