All power of attor­ney prop­erty deals banned in Delhi; trans­ac­tions since Octo­ber 2011 declared void
Source: Eco­nomic Times
Dated: 4^th May 2012

In an order that puts thou­sands of prop­erty trans­ac­tions in Delhi under a cloud, the rev­enue depart­ment has made all realty sales through trans­fer of gen­eral power of attor­ney null and void with ret­ro­spect­ive effect from Octo­ber last year.

The order, dated April 27, dir­ects all 13 sub-registrar offices, DDA and NDMC to fol­low the Supreme Court’s order last Octo­ber that no sale deed will be registered if it is through a GPA trans­fer. This means trans­ac­tions car­ried out since Octo­ber on GPA trans­fers will have to be registered afresh with com­plete documents.

On aver­age, around 20% of regis­tries are done through GPA trans­fers, a com­mon way of selling lease­hold prop­er­ties and those that don’t have a clear title. In Delhi’s north­w­est dis­trict, for instance, of 5,300 doc­u­ments registered across three sub-registrar offices in March, 1,157 were GPA trans­fer regis­tries. Bankers said the pro­por­tion of GPA trans­fers were even higher in sales involving bank loans.

Top rev­enue depart­ment offi­cials steered clear of tak­ing respons­ib­il­ity for the delay in imple­ment­ing the Supreme Court order. They said that as this was a Supreme Court order, it should have been imple­men­ted at the sub-registrar offices since Octo­ber. They admit­ted, how­ever, that regis­trars have only stopped regis­ter­ing such sale deeds after the April 27 dir­ect­ive from the rev­enue sec­ret­ary and divi­sional com­mis­sioner Vijay Dev.

Realty watch­ers said the order will reduce the num­ber of sale­able prop­er­ties in the cap­ital and lead to a hike in the value of prop­er­ties on free­hold land.

Cit­ing the Octo­ber 11, 2011, judg­ment of the Supreme Court, the rev­enue depart­ment cir­cu­lar says, “It is reit­er­ated that immov­able prop­erty can be leg­ally and law­fully trans­ferred only by a registered deed of con­vey­ance (sale deed)… ‘GPA sales’ of ‘SA (sale agreement)/ GPA/will trans­fer’ do not con­vey title and do not amount to trans­fer, nor can they be recog­nized as valid mode of trans­fer of immov­able prop­erty. The court will not treat such trans­ac­tions as completed…”

“To ensure that the Supreme Court order is fol­lowed, I have issued a cir­cu­lar inform­ing all offi­cials involved in regis­tra­tion of doc­u­ments to not register any sale deeds on a GPA trans­fer,” Vijay Dev told TOI. He said it was required as GPA trans­fer trans­ac­tions left no evid­ence of how many hands a prop­erty might have changed hands. There are also loop­holes in GPA trans­fer cases as prop­erty papers may not be com­plete or a prop­erty may not have the requis­ite com­ple­tion certificates.

In such cases, Dev said, there were greater chances of a buyer land­ing in lit­ig­a­tion. The imple­ment­a­tion of the court order would mean cleaner trans­ac­tions with clear title deeds and also higher rev­enue to the state as each sale of the same prop­erty will have to be duly registered on pay­ment of stamp duty, he said.

How­ever, the ret­ro­spect­ive order has thrown thou­sands of prop­erty sales after Octo­ber on GPA into uncer­tainty. Own­ers who bought prop­erty on GPA because it lacked per­fect doc­u­ment­a­tion are now in trouble because leg­ally the prop­erty remains in the seller’s name. Both parties will now have to ini­ti­ate the pro­cess of trans­fer of prop­erty through clear sale deed.

The prob­lem is, due to archaic reg­u­la­tions, many prop­er­ties in the do not have clear titles. Take for example co-operative soci­et­ies that do not have a com­ple­tion cer­ti­fic­ate because the builder did not fol­low rules dur­ing con­struc­tion. A flat owner in such a soci­ety, who may be in pos­ses­sion of the prop­erty for dec­ades, will not be able to sell it.

Most of apart­ments in coöper­at­ive hous­ing soci­et­ies and DDA con­domin­i­ums are sold though GPA. Now, if the soci­et­ies have com­pleti­tion cer­ti­fic­ate and the ori­ginal buyer has cleared all the dues, these prop­erty can be con­ver­ted into free­hold. Only after that its owner can sell it through registered sale deed.

Anshuman Magazine, MD of global con­sultancy firm CBRE ( South Asia,) said that ban­ning trans­ac­tions through GPA would bring in trans­par­ency . “But before issu­ing the order, the gov­ern­ment should have con­duc­ted a spe­cial drive to give com­ple­tion cer­ti­fic­ates to prop­er­ties,” he said.

Also facing uncer­tainty are houses in unau­thor­ized colon­ies because very few prop­er­ties here have a clear title . These house own­ers too would have encounter prob­lems in selling the property.

The order also provides an oppor­tun­ity for middle­men to take advant­age of the situ­ation as the demand for con­vert­ing prop­er­ties to free­hold is likely to surge. In prac­tice, such con­ver­sions are usu­ally car­ried out through touts.

 

West Delhi to be a vital clog in the Capital’s growth story
Source: Eco­nomic Times
Dated: 29^th April 2012

NEW DELHI: In Delhi, if South is seen as a rich man’s abode, North an indus­trial hub, East a res­id­en­tial main­stay and Centre the retailer’s para­dise, West Delhi has them all. Pun­j­abi Bagh bun­ga­lows have Audis and S-Class Mer­cedes parked cosily inside; Rajouri Garden has shop­ping malls packed bey­ond capa­city; Naraina or Mayapuri have indus­trial pock­ets flour­ish­ing with unmatched prowess and Karol Bagh passes off as a hybrid of Pal­ika Bazaar, Nehru Place and Gandhi Nagar.

And there is more com­ing. “West Delhi will be the centre of indus­trial and infra­struc­tural devel­op­ment activ­it­ies in the next 10 years or so,” says San­jeev Ahuja, exec­ut­ive dir­ector of the Delhi State Indus­trial and Infra­struc­ture Devel­op­ment Cor­por­a­tion (DSIIDC).

“It was long over­due,” Ahuja says. Going by the devel­op­ment plans slated for the national cap­ital in the next dec­ade, most of the indus­trial growth and devel­op­ment will be hap­pen­ing in West Delhi. In the Delhi Devel­op­ment Authority’s Mas­ter Plan for 2021 from the 60,000 hec­tares — slated for the devel­op­ment of new sub-cities in Delhi — about 40,000 hec­tares lie in West Delhi. Moreover, of the total 29 indus­trial estates noti­fied by the Delhi gov­ern­ment, eight of them are in West Delhi, second only to north­ern Delhi that has 12.”

Accord­ing to Ahuja, the last few years have been quite good for Delhi as a whole but the com­ing years will be bet­ter spe­cific­ally for West Delhi. “Many pro­jects — indus­trial, com­mer­cial and res­id­en­tial — are due to come up in this part of the city. Given that the area now has bet­ter con­nectiv­ity, I can say it is def­in­itely some­thing we should look for­ward to,” says the DSIIDC director.

GROWTH PROJECTIONS

More than Rs 5,000 crore are being pumped in West Delhi’s rural back­doors in Bap­rola vil­lage near Najafgarh-Nangloi road and Rani Khera area near Mun­dka that will shift a chunk of eco­nomic activ­ity from other parts of Delhi to the West. “DSIIDC is devel­op­ing a 77.50 acre Know­ledge Based Industry (KBI) park at Bap­rola in West Delhi at a cost of ‘2,000 crore,” says Ahuja. “This would cre­ate dir­ect employ­ment for about 85,000 people.

At Rani Khera, oppos­ite Mun­dka, we are devel­op­ing a multi-level man­u­fac­tur­ing hub in 147 acre worth ‘3,098 crore.” Both of these pro­jects are expec­ted to com­plete by 2016. “We have been inform­ally approached by Nas­scom, Infosys and Delhi-Mumbai Indus­trial Cor­ridor (DMIC) to set-up offices in these parks,” says Ahuja. To improve con­nectiv­ity the DSIIDC has sug­ges­ted an elev­ated cor­ridor from West Delhi to other parts of the city. And the indus­trial body is now devel­op­ing hous­ing facil­it­ies for skilled and unskilled work­ers inside these pro­jects. The Delhi gov­ern­ment hopes to attract invest­ments worth ‘70,000 crore and gen­er­ate employ­ment oppor­tun­it­ies for nearly three lakh people with these projects.

WEST DELHI’S former deputy com­mis­sioner GS Meena agrees with the growth pro­jec­tions. List­ing out some future pro­jects, Meena says, “We are in pro­cess of devel­op­ing 13 com­munity centres and sev­eral dis­trict centres in West Delhi. Four more col­leges are due to come in the area. DLF has already acquired land and is devel­op­ing com­mer­cial and res­id­en­tial spaces in Moti Nagar.”

Most of all, Meena says, Metro’s Phase-III, which has a lar­ger pres­ence in West Delhi, will lift the rural areas and sub­urbs of West Delhi to devel­op­ment. In addi­tion, seven unau­thor­ised indus­trial areas in West Delhi will soon be reg­u­lar­ised under the Mas­ter Plan.

POOR INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Accord­ing to Meena, though the devel­op­ment is the next thing hap­pen­ing in West Delhi, the area was neg­lected all this while. “Issues such as waste man­age­ment and improve­ment of basic infra­struc­ture are big chal­lenges that need imme­di­ate atten­tion,” he says. PVC waste from through­out Delhi is dumped at Mun­dka area in West Delhi which is ill-managed.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/west-delhi-to-be-a-vital-clog-in-the-capitals-growth-story/articleshow/12921782.cms 

 

Mid-Term Review of Mas­ter Plan by DDA

Dated: 25^th April 2012
Source: PIB
The Mas­ter Plan for Delhi-2021 (MPD-2021) was noti­fied on 7^th Feb­ru­ary, 2007 which provides for Mid-Term Review at 5 years inter­val. The Delhi Devel­op­ment Author­ity (DDA) has informed that 1^st Mid-Term Review has already been ini­ti­ated with par­ti­cip­at­ory approach. Dis­trict wise nodal offi­cials are appoin­ted for receiv­ing suggestions. 

For Mid-Term Review of MPD-2021, 11 Man­age­ment Action Groups have been con­sti­tuted for address­ing major issues. A High Level Advis­ory Group under the chair­man­ship of Lt. Gov­ernor of Delhi com­pris­ing of heads of vari­ous Govt. Depart­ments, private organ­iz­a­tions, pro­fes­sion­als and other cor­por­ate indi­vidu­als as expert mem­bers have been constituted.

The exer­cise of the Mid-Term Review have already been ini­ti­ated and reg­u­lar meet­ings of the Man­age­ment Action Groups and Advis­ory Group are held. In addi­tion to this, to ensure pub­lic par­ti­cip­a­tion six district/zonal Open House Meets are held by DDA by invit­ing gen­eral pub­lic, RWA, pro­fes­sion­als etc. for invit­ing sug­ges­tions for the Mid-Term Review of MPD-2021 with a view to max­im­ize people’s par­ti­cip­a­tion in the Review of Mas­ter Plan of Delhi-2021.

This inform­a­tion was given by the Min­is­ter of State for Urban Devel­op­ment Shri Saugata Roy in a writ­ten reply to a ques­tion in Lok Sabha today.

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http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=82505

 

Kamal Nath dir­ects DDA to fol­low a par­ti­cip­at­ive and trans­par­ent pro­cess for Review of MPD 2021

Mr Kamal Nath, Min­is­ter of Urban Devel­op­ment has dir­ec­ted DDA to ensure that the review of MPD 2021, which has com­menced as per the pro­vi­sions of Mas­ter Plan for Delhi (MPD-2021), has a futur­istic vis­ion and fol­lows a par­ti­cip­at­ive process.

In order to ensure that the MPD 2021 Review pro­cess is well struc­tured and involves the stake­hold­ers, Min­is­ter Nath has dir­ec­ted that:

(I) DDA shall cre­ate area wise Mas­ter Plan review cells. Each Review cell will be headed by an officer of appro­pri­ate seni­or­ity and shall be respons­ible for a par­tic­u­lar area of Delhi.

(ii) The names of the officers head­ing the Review Cells, along with their con­tact details would be made avail­able to the pub­lic and other asso­ci­ations in order to facil­it­ate the receipt of representations.

(iii) The pub­lic should be encour­aged to con­tinue send­ing their sug­ges­tions up to 30 April 2012.

(iv) DDA would hold “Open House” in each of the areas and visit the areas in order to factor in the ground realities.

(vs.) DDA would cre­ate a des­ig­nated space on their web­site, where each and every sug­ges­tion would be pos­ted. Each sug­ges­tion and com­ment received on the Mas­ter Plan Review will be given a unique docket num­ber spe­cify­ing the sender and sug­ges­tion. The web­site should have a search facil­ity, whereby, sug­ges­tions on each issue can be eas­ily be loc­ated along with the name of the person/organisation mak­ing the suggestion.

Min­is­ter Kamal Nath has also set up an Apex Com­mit­tee on the MPD 2021 review. This Apex Com­mit­tee would form­ally sub­mit the revised MPD – 2021 for the con­sid­er­a­tion of the Min­istry. The Apex Com­mit­tee would be under the Chair­man­ship of Hon’ble LG. The other mem­bers of the Apex Com­mit­tee would include Sec­ret­ary (Urban Devel­op­ment), Sec­ret­ary (HUPA) and Chief Sec­ret­ary, Delhi. The Com­mit­tee could sub­mit its reports and recom­mend­a­tions as and when final­ized for dif­fer­ent seg­ments. It is expec­ted that the first report of the Com­mit­tee will be sub­mit­ted to the Min­istry of Urban Devel­op­ment not later than June 30, 2012.

The Min­istry of Urban Devel­op­ment will shortly be giv­ing wide pub­li­city to the above through lead­ing local Eng­lish and Hindi news­pa­pers con­tain­ing the web­site address of DDA, the des­ig­nated space in the DDA web­site for upload­ing sug­ges­tions and also the names and con­tact details of DDA offi­cials in the dif­fer­ent areas who may be for­war­ded the MPD 2021 review suggestions.

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DDA TENDERS 100 M EXPRESSWAY UER-II IN ‘ZONE N’ OF MPD 2021
Nancy Singh, Spe­cial correspondent

To them all ‘naysay­ers’, the Delhi devel­op­ment Author­ity (DDA) is respond­ing with deeds sup­port­ing their words.

On the 29^th March’ 2012, Dur­ing the pub­lic inter­ac­tion dur­ing the review of the Mas­ter plan MPD 2021, Mr. Bansal, the com­mis­sioner plan­ning of DDA, in repines to the ques­tions raised by Mr. Ramesh Menon of Certes Realty ltd has men­tioned that the UER-II has already been approved, and the fund­ing etc. tied up. The naysay­ers, then too, averred that it would not see the light of the day over the next 5 years. Sadly. they’ve been proven wrong.

The Urban devel­op­ment Min­is­ter, Mr. Kamal Nath, arguing in favor of the trans­par­ency policy had men­tioned that “all future noti­fic­a­tions would be pub­lished in at least 2 national dailies, as well as be pos­ted on the web­sites of the min­istry & DDA”.

In line with the above, the Delhi devel­op­ment author­ity (DDA) has pub­lished tender  for the “Con­struc­tion of UER II Mas­ter plan road in Rohini SH con­struc­tion of 100 M right of way road from west­ern Yamuna canal to Kan­jhawala Road newer Vil­lage Karala Majri for part align­ment passing through Rohini”.

The estim­ated cost of this work is 63.74 crores, and the tender is in two stages for techno-commercial costing.

What is heart­en­ing is that the exe­cu­tion period has been fixed for 15 Months.

For the inform­a­tion of the gen­eral audi­ence, the tender clos­ing date has been fixed for the 30^th April’ 2012, and all tenders should be applied through e-tendering.

The vil­lages of Kan­jhawala, Madan­pur Dabas, Ranikhera-Rasoolpur, Jounti, Majra etc. would soon see renewed interest from buy­ers & investors, feel experts.

The renewed pace of ‘prag­matic review of MPD 2021′ is indeed wel­come, and expect many more steps to be ini­ti­ated in the imme­di­ate future.