Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Friday assured a delegation of residents of unauthorised colonies in Delhi that the Pradhan Mantri Uday Yojana will confer ownership rights on them and “change the fate” of the entire city, the BJP said.
Addressing around 200 representatives from such colonies at his residence, the party said in a statement, Mr. Modi said the BJP had started the process of finding a solution to the problem soon after the formation of the BJP government at the Centre in 2014. The delegations also consisted of the party’s seven Lok Sabha MPs.
“We hoped that the local government will share some responsibilities but the process did not speed up. Then it was decided that we will take the responsibility if nobody does it,” the Prime Minister was quoted as having told the delegation, in a statement issued by the party’s State unit.
“We will depute as many officers as required and depute required personnel for survey work. The Government of India will complete this work with full responsibility. I am assured that the policy will be based on the principle of ‘Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas’,” Mr. Modi was quoted as having said.
This year, he was quoted as having said, the people of Delhi celebrated Deepawali twice. Those who were born in such colonies, he said, were always confronted by the “danger of demolition”. Mr. Modi said that they, however, “never lost patience” and “cooperated with the system” even as some political parties worked under “political arithmetic” on the issue without any result. He said that a law would be enacted during the upcoming winter session of Parliament to confer ownership rights to an estimated 40 lakh citizens of around 1,797 such colonies.
