CM Gehlot’s big decision for poor

Jaipur: The Ashok Gehlot government has taken a big decision to provide relief to economically weaker people who possess lands in cities. Now the people of the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Low IG class will not have to pay less lease amount for their plot than before.

The Urban Development and Housing department has issued an order in this regard. The government has changed the formula for calculating the lease amount of the plot.

In order to make the patta of plots easily available to the urban population and to settle the daily works related to the civic body, the state government started Prashasan Shahron ke Sang campaign on October 2, 2021, with a target to distribute more than 10 lakh pattas.

However, many people do not make the full deposit of the lease amount. The entire lease amount has to be deposited at the time of the issuing of the lease.

To get a freehold lease, the plot holder has to deposit ten years of lease amount but due to the high lease amount, the poor people were not able to deposit the amount.

Sensitive for the poor, the Ashok Gehlot government then took a major decision to provide relief in the matter.
Allotment of plots in the schemes of local bodies is done under the Urban Land Disposal Rules 1974. There is a provision to give relief in the allotment rate to the economically weaker sections (EWS) and low-income groups.

Plots are allotted to EWS at 50 percent of the reserved rate while the allotment of plots to LIG is done at eighty percent of the reserved rate.

As per the rules, the lease amount of the plot is calculated according to the reserved rate for all classes.
The lease amount of the residential plot has to be deposited according to two and a half percent of the reserved rate. In this case, EWS and LIG had to give a lease according to the full reserve rate.

The people who are not able to afford the high lease amount were hesitant to take a freehold lease.
Keeping this in mind, the state government took the decision under which the poor land owners will have to pay much less lease than before.