The file pertaining to this has been sent to the Urban Development Ministry for clearance

The Delhi government on Wednesday sent the file pertaining to regularisation of unauthorised colonies to the Urban Development (UD) Ministry for clearance. The AAP government has relaxed the regularisation policy and has waived off the penalty/ regularisation charges from unauthorised colonies of F, G and H category. In what can be viewed as a pro-poor policy, the waiving off penalty charges will be major relief as 90 per cent of unauthorised colonies in Delhi fall in these categories.
The Opposition had on the first day of the Winter Session of the Delhi Assembly criticised the government for not taking any concrete steps for regularisation of these illegal colonies. Officials in the government said that the matter was delayed as the Urban Development Department had sought satellite imagery of built-up areas of the colonies as on January 1, 2015 to issue the boundary fixation order. “But now the file has been sent to the UD Ministry and they have to clear it,” said an official.
Officials at the Union Urban Development Ministry confirmed to have received the file on Wednesday and said that it will be circulated in the Cabinet for opinion. “It will take at least 20 days for the file to be cleared, if no objections are raised,” said a UD Ministry official.
Over 40 per cent of Delhi’s population lives in unauthorised colonies and the regularisation has been pending since 2012. Congress government had distributed provisional regularisation certificates to 1639 unauthorised colonies before the 2008 Assembly elections. It took almost four years for the Sheila Dikshit- government to announce the regularisation of 895 colonies. Later it regularised another 91 colonies and promised to regularise the remaining colonies if it returned to power in 2013.
It is now that the AAP-government has amended the existing regulations. “A colony in category H on public land per square metre would cost Rs. 23,280 but now it will cost Rs. 500.”
Earlier, the date on which 50 per cent built up was to be reckoned as date of existence of the colony has been extended to January 1, 2015 from February 8, 2007. Officials said that this would allow many more colonies to come under the regularisation policy. Moreover, the Master Plan of Delhi- 2021 guidelines have been relaxed. Officials said that earlier it was proposed that land for a community centre, dispensaries and schools had to be made available for the colony to qualify for a legit tag. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, on Wednesday, told the media, “It is our responsibility to regularise them and we will do so within five years. Already we have started providing water to colonies like Bawana and Sangam Vihar and will make sure that water reaches all unauthorised colonies in 2.5 years.”