Haryana CM Manohar Lal announces regularization of 303 colonies across 14 districts with immediate effect

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal yesterday announced the regularization of 303 colonies across 14 districts with immediate effect. Addressing a press conference at Chandigarh yesterday he said that an allocation of 3000 crore rupees for comprehensive infrastructure development of these colonies has been made.

CM said, these colonies comprise 193 colonies which come under 39 municipalities and 110 colonies governed by the Town and Country Planning Department. This groundbreaking decision is poised to mark a milestone in the realm of urban development, said the Chief Minister.

He further disclosed that 2,90,540 properties are built in these colonies and this regularisation move is expected to bring relief and development to a population of over 10 lakh residents within these areas.

Chief Minister informed that the government



had sought information about such irregular colonies on the portal, out of which 1507 colonies are still remaining to be regularized. Of these, 936 are from urban local bodies and 571 are in controlled areas. CM said, it is our resolve that these colonies will also be regularised by 31st January 2024.

He said that special monitoring would be done so as to stop the mushrooming of unauthorized colonies in the state. Strict provisions have been made for this.

While highlighting a significant difference in the regularisation of unauthorized colonies between the Congress government's 10-year tenure and the present state government’s tenure, CM said since 2014 a total of 1438 colonies have been successfully regularised, while the Congress government regularised only 874 colonies.