PM Modi urged to regularise houses outside Lal Dora in Chandigarh villages

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 21

Drawing attention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the fact that houses constructed outside the Lal Dora in UT villages lack development, residents have demanded the regularisation of the houses.

In a letter, BS Rawat, former general secretary, Deep Complex Welfare Association, requested the Prime Minister to review the Punjab New Capital Periphery Control Act - 1952 and regularise the houses outside the Lal Dora.

He stated that people living outside the Lal Dora were casting their votes for panchayat, Municipal Corporation and Lok Sabha elections, but the elected representatives were not authorised to develop their area under Ward Development Fund and MPLAD schemes.

In November 2018, 13 villages were transferred under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation, but the area falling outside the Lal Dora of these 13 villages has been kept under the provision of the Punjab New Capital Periphery Control Act - 1952.

“The villages in Chandigarh are no longer rural in character. They have become urbanised, requiring urban modes of

planning, urban level of civil services and urban form of local self-government,” he said.

He requested the PM to remove the Punjab New Capital Periphery Control Act – 1952 because people living outside the Lal Dora are not capable of facing this Act forever.

The letter reads

In a letter, BS Rawat, former general secretary, Deep Complex Welfare Association, requested the Prime Minister to review the Punjab New Capital Periphery Control Act - 1952 and regularise the houses outside the Lal Dora.