{"id":114640,"date":"2021-06-24T14:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T09:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=114640"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:25:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T05:55:03","slug":"ownership-rights-to-unauthorised-colonies-located-on-yamuna-flood-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ownership-rights-to-unauthorised-colonies-located-on-yamuna-flood-plain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ownership rights to\u00a0unauthorised\u00a0colonies located on Yamuna Flood Plain\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Synopsis<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:\u00a0The new master plan of Delhi 2041 would provide ownership rights to residents of at least 71\u00a0unauthorized\u00a0colonies located along the Yamuna flood plain.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Background<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"237\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The new master plan for Delhi (MPD) 2041 is put in the public domain for suggestions and amendments.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"238\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Under this, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has proposed to\u00a0delineate\u00a0Zone O, which encompasses the\u00a0floodplain, into two zones &#8211; Zone O-I and O-II.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"o\" data-font=\"Courier New\" data-listid=\"34\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"64\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Zone O-I is the\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201criver zone\u201d with the active floodplain<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, spread over 6,295\u00a0hectare, and no construction would be allowed here.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"o\" data-font=\"Courier New\" data-listid=\"34\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"65\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Zone O-II, covering 3,638.4 hectare, has been rezoned as<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0\u201criverfront\u201d with regulated development<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The rationale behind demarcation of Zone O:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"241\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The demarcation is\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">in compliance with the 2015 NGT order<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">. The tribunal had directed that the floodplain be identified for a flood in 25 years in the interest of ecology, biodiversity and the river flow.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"242\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The demarcation is<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0based on a scientific study conducted by IIT\u00a0delhi<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">. Based on this, only 5\u00a0unauthorised\u00a0colonies fell in the active flood plain area while 71 were outside it. Thus,\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">enabling the latter to apply for ownership rights<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0if the delineation is allowed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis:\u00a0The new master plan of Delhi 2041 would provide ownership rights to residents of at least 71\u00a0unauthorized\u00a0colonies located along the Yamuna flood plain.\u00a0 Background:\u00a0 The new master plan for Delhi (MPD) 2041 is put in the public domain for suggestions and amendments.\u00a0 Under this, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has proposed to\u00a0delineate\u00a0Zone O, which encompasses&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ownership-rights-to-unauthorised-colonies-located-on-yamuna-flood-plain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ownership rights to\u00a0unauthorised\u00a0colonies located on Yamuna Flood Plain\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,8043,1566,4182,9],"tags":[216,8180,8178,8179],"class_list":["post-114640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-current-affairs-cat","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-protected-areas","tag-yamuna-flood-plain","tag-zone-o","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700785258,"cached_date":1700902560},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}