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Delhi notifies slum policy: 1 BHK units for eligible JJ dwellers
The Story in Brief
The Delhi government on 4 November notified the Slum and Jhuggi Jhopri Relocation and Rehabilitation Policy, 2026, approved by DUSIB under Section 10(1) of the DUSIB Act, 2010. Eligible JJ dwellers will receive a 1 BHK unit with a minimum carpet area of 25 sq m, basic water, sewerage and electricity connections. Beneficiaries must contribute Rs 1.5 lakh for the unit and Rs 50,000 at allotment towards the operation-and-maintenance corpus fund.
Eligibility requires the jhuggi to have existed before 1 January 2025, the applicant to be an Indian citizen aged 18 or above, listed in the voter list before that date and at the time of survey, and to own no pucca residential property anywhere in India. Serving and retired government servants are excluded. The policy prioritises in-situ rehabilitation or relocation within 0 to 3 km of the original site. Private-sector participation is formalised through PPP models including TDR. A 10-year lock-in on leasehold allotments applies, with subletting, unauthorised transfer and re-encroachment prohibited. An appellate authority comprising judicial, administrative and expert members will adjudicate disputes.
Indian Opinion Analysis
One BHK units of 25 square metres carpet area replace the older, ad-hoc rehabilitation schemes that had struggled to keep pace with Delhi's mushrooming informal settlements. By pegging eligibility to a voter-list cutoff of 1 January 2025, the policy locks out later arrivals, potentially stranding thousands of recent migrants who occupy land that the government now wants freed for redevelopment. The Rs 1.5 lakh beneficiary contribution and the Rs 50,000 maintenance deposit create a financial barrier that poorer households may find hard to meet. DUSIB and DDA have been split the nodal agency responsibilities along land-ownership lines, which could slow project clearances. The 10-year lock-in on leasehold allotments and the flat ban on subletting aim to prevent the resale of subsidised units back into the informal market, but enforcement will depend on the yet-to-be-notified appellate authority.
Source: scconline.com
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