New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) The fate of colonies that have illegally come up on lands of the forest department and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will be settled soon, Delhi's Urban Development Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said Tuesday.
The forest department is expected to submit its detailed survey report on these unauthorised colonies to the central government.
"Regularisation (of unauthorised colonies) is a complex issue and the Delhi government is very serious to resolve all the problems -- whether it is related to ASI, ridge or forest," Lovely said at a meeting.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna Sep 6 approved the regularisation of 895 unauthorised colonies after the state government sent him a list of 917 such colonies.
Khanna then asked the government to ensure that colonies on forest lands or near the protected monuments should not be regularised.
The Shiela Dikshit-led Congress government in Delhi had issued provisional regularisation certificates to over 1,600 illegal colonies in 2008 ahead of the state assembly polls.
However, the move hung fire till this year when Dikshit took up the matter with the central government and got a go-ahead for 917 unauthorised colonies in September.
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