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NEW DELHI, JAN. 29. Finally realising that its one-room tenements were not fit for human dwelling, the Delhi Development Authority has decided to give up construction of Janata flats and construct only LIG (Lower Income Group) type flats for the economically weaker sections of society from now on. The Principal Commissioner, D.B. Gupta, said a change is being brought about in the designs and layout plans of Janata flats to make them more liveable for the poor while at the same time keeping their costs low. Noting that as many as 17,000 of the 28,000 flats being constructed by DDA at present belonged to the LIG category, Mr. Gupta said the authority is concentrating at providing low cost housing to the masses. However, he said, the point often gets ignored as some of the registrants of the NPRS 1979 scheme and the 1989 Ambedkar Awas Yojana are still to be allotted flats and till these remain pending DDA cannot come up with a new scheme in the LIG category. Noting that allotments in both these categories are made on a monthly basis through computerised draw of lots as DDA wants to hand over the flats as soon as they are completed and approved of by the engineering wing, the official said though the original plan was to allot flats to all registrants of these categories by December 2005, efforts are being made to achieve this target six months earlier by June 2005 itself. As of now, 3,090 registrants of Janata flats and 11,000 of LIG flats are awaiting allotment from DDA. To cater to the growing demand for housing in the Capital, DDA is also actively considering involving the private sector. The Vice-Chairman, Madhukar Gupta, said teams have been sent to Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal to study the privatisation models being adopted there. Noting that the private sector can be involved in both land development and in housing, he said the development models of Haryana, which involves the private sector in land development, and of Uttar Pradesh, which involves them in both housing and land development, which also encompasses making provisions for utilities, are also being studied. In Delhi, he said, while already the private sector is involved in a limited way through the cooperative group housing societies and through development of private plots being allotted under the Rohini scheme, as these schemes do not suffice, a larger role is still being sought for the private sector.
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