HUDA to settle claims of all oustees

AUTHORITY TO ISSUE ADVERTISEMENT INVITING APPLICATIONS FOR ALLOTMENT OF PLOTS BY MONTHEND

CHANDIGARH: In a bid to settle all oustee claims, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) will be inviting applications from oustees for allotment of plots by the month-end. The applications will be invited through advertisements.

J Ganesan, chief administrator, HUDA, said, “We are in the process of collecting all the details regarding the plots available, and the oustee numbers in each of our estate offices. As soon as this information is ready we will issue advertisements inviting application from the oustees for allotment of plots. We expect the entire process to be completed in a month.”

Oustees are people whose lands have been acquired in lieu of allotment of plots, in addition to the compensation received under the Land Acquisition Act.

The scheme will be exclusively for the oustees.

Following the directions of Punjab and Haryana high court, HUDA will allot plots in a sector to the oustees before the general applicants. S

ettling several contentious issues regarding the oustees’ plot allotments, the HC had earlier directed that if there are any unallotted plots in a sector in the state, they would henceforth be first allotted to the oustees to the extent of reservation in their favour and only thereafter be allotted to the general applicants.

The HC had also stated that to get a plot under the oustees’ quota, such a person has to apply for the plot and he would not be automatically entitled for allotment of plot without any application.

In line with the HC order, HUDA estate offices will invite application from the oustees. A screening committee headed by administrator, for each estate office, will examine the applications submitted.

Allotment of plots will be made as per the current price. The price will be calculated as per the HUDA formula. Allotment of plots to oustees has long been a contentious issue between HUDA and oustees with many oustees approaching courts against the HUDA oustee policy. The last major attempt of HUDA in 2013 of inviting applications from the oustees for the allotment of plots didn’t elicit desired response.