`Delhi Govt. delaying regularisation of slums`

  • 02/06/2004

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president, Harsh Vardhan, lashed out at the Delhi Government for trying to "sabotage'' regularisation of unauthorised colonies in the Capital and for not being interested in providing the basic civic amenities to lakhs of residents who are living in these colonies under unhygienic conditions. In a statement, Dr. Vardhan alleged that Delhi's Urban Development Minister, A.K. Walia, had failed to provide the list of the 1,071 colonies regularised by the previous Vajpayee Government to the Union Urban Development Ministry in order to enable it to take a decision on regularisation of these colonies. He accused the Sheila Dikshit Government of deliberately delaying finding a solution to the problems of these people.