Cidco strives for transparency, better land allotment system

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS To update website regularly, form a cell for citizens’ complaints and make documents under 12.5% scheme available to public

CBD BELAPUR: The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) has undertaken a number of steps to ensure transparency in its dayto- day administrative affairs and equitable distribution of plots to project affected people ( PAP), whose land had been acquired for development of Navi Mumbai under the 12.5% scheme.

The nodal agency will now start to update its website regularly with details about its programmes, agendas, upcoming initiatives and setting up of a citizens’ grievances redressal centre. It will also make public documents for the distribution of plots under the 12.5% scheme, said a senior Cidco official on the condition of anonymity. In fact, the agency will also build a stateof-the-art record room for greater transparency in its functioning.

According to the official, in the first phase of the drive, a document inspection drive was conducted at 15 villages in Uran, 13 in Panvel and 11 in Thane district (Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation area) in the last few months. Next, four more villages in Uran, four in Panvel and three in Thane will be inspected from December 13.

The documents that are kept at the data centre of the land department have already been inspected and matched with documents pertaining to the pending allotment of plots under the 12.5% scheme. A video recording and scanning of the documents have also been conducted.

A committee and a sub-com- mittee have also been set up for the job and the documents have been divided into A,B,C and D categories.

A category comprises authenticated documents eligible for plots under the 12.5% scheme, while B comprises incomplete documents that need approval.

Category C consists of documents without the names of beneficiaries or ones that are pending in court, while and category D comprises cancelled documents.