NEW DELHI A controversy is likely to break out in Jahangirpuri area of the city after Delhi government gave its nod to convert one of the largest water bodies in the city for building residential colonies. The government has identified the land as "not fit to be restored for water purpose', a move that doesn't gel with the "Green Delhi' plans of Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government. However, the Delhi government's committee on water bodies headed by chief secretary Rakesh Mehta maintained that since, in the revenue record, it was "never a water body but banjar (land not fit for cultivation)' over 100 acres of the 300 acres of marshland can be used for the proposed housing colony. The land is in parts owned by Public Works Department (PWD) and the Delhi police and residential colonies are likely to be made for the same departments. Official sources said that 40 acres of the 100 acres is owned by PWD and the rest by the Delhi police. However, while the government has given a virtual goahead for the project, the local residents who had met Mr Mehta two months ago seeking the protection of the water body, said they were not aware of the development.