RENAME DDA AS DELHI DESTRUCT AUTHORITY.- DELHI HIGH COURT
Mahendra Kumar Gupta
RENAME DDA AS DELHI DESTRUCT AUTHORITY.
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday termed Delhi Development Authority (DDA) as "Delhi Destruct Authority" while saying that the land-owning agency and other departments are not concerned about Delhi.
"You all are not concerned about Delhi. All of you should be renamed. DDA should be renamed Delhi Destruct Authority," said a division bench of Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva.
The court's observation came while hearing a PIL that said there was a forest area in Tughlakabad and birds and animals were dying because of poisonous and polluted water released from illegal factories in the area.
The discharge has created an "artificial lake" and the polluted water "is spreading in the whole forest", the plea filed by resident Manoj Kumar said. It said animals were dying on a large scale.
The court wanted to know which government body is responsible for looking into the issue of contaminated water and whether the water body is a natural lake or not but none of the departments could answer the court's query.
The court also expressed unhappiness on the meeting held on 29 January on court's earlier direction to chalk out remedial measures to clean the contaminated water in the Tughlakabad Ridge area. It had also asked the DDA to explore the possibility of converting the polluted artificial lake and 200 acres of surrounding land behind the Tughlaqabad Fort into a biodiversity park on the lines of the Yamuna biodiversity park.
"None if them appears to be aware as to what has to be done... All these concerned bodies don't know who are responsible," said the bench Wednesday as it added the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the South Delhi Municipal Committee and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee as parties in the case.
The bench issued notice to ASI, SDMC and DPCC and sought their responses by 4 March. It also asked DDA to submit a map indicating the extent of the water body and its location along with layout plan of the surrounding park.
Anil K Rajput
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Surjit Chetal
REJIMON C K
The Delhi Development Authority, under Section 6 of the Delhi Development Act, 1957 has been given the following Charter:
"To promote and secure the development of Delhi according to the plan and for that purpose the Authority shall have the power to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of land and other property, to carry out building, engineering, mining and other operations to execute works in connection - with supply of water and electricity, disposal of sewage and other services and amenities and generally to do anything necessary or expedient for purposes of such development and for purposes incidental thereto."
In simple words, the Charter of DDA, as ratified by the Act of 1957, lists the objectives of the Authority as:
To formulate a Master Plan for covering the present and future growth of Delhi and to promote and secure the development of Delhi according to the plan covering all the possible activities.
To acquire, hold, manage and dispose of land and other property.
To carry out building, engineering, mining and other operations.
And, to provide services and amenities incidental to the above.
REJIMON C K
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