This story is from January 10, 2020

Delhi: Congress says it’ll follow Kalkaji model on slum dwellers’ rehab

If Congress comes to power, it will provide slum dwellers 25-square-metre flats in multistorey buildings as part of in situ development of slum clusters in the capital, Delhi Congress president Subhash Chopra said on Thursday. BJP has already promised ‘Jahaan Jhuggi Wahan Makaan’.
Delhi: Congress says it’ll follow Kalkaji model on slum dwellers’ rehab
Delhi Congress president Subhash Chopra. (Photo: Twitter/@SChopraINC)
NEW DELHI: If Congress comes to power, it will provide slum dwellers 25-square-metre flats in multistorey buildings as part of in situ development of slum clusters in the capital, Delhi Congress president Subhash Chopra said on Thursday. BJP has already promised ‘Jahaan Jhuggi Wahan Makaan’.
Chopra said Congress would replicate the Kalkaji model to relocate the people without demolishing any slum cluster. He was referring to the in-situ slum redevelopment project of Delhi Development Authority (DDA) in south Delhi’s Kalkaji A-14, where more than 3,000 families from three slums will be provided flats.
Chopra said he had got the project started as its local MLA.
Pointing out that this will be one of the main promises in the Congress manifesto for the assembly elections, Chopra claimed “Congress fulfils what it promises” and the Kalkaji model, with various amenities such as schools, anganwadis, dispensaries and parks, was an example of it. Both BJP and AAP have betrayed slum dwellers across Delhi, he alleged.
Chief spokesperson Mukesh Sharma claimed Congress had always protected the interest of slum dwellers by providing all civic amenities. When the late Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister, 46 resettlement colonies were set up in Delhi, he said.
Chopra asked why the Kalkaji flats, finished after a delay of three and a half years, were yet to be allotted. When Congress’ Ajay Maken was a Union minister, flats were also constructed at Katputhli Colony and Ashok Vihar, but these are yet to be allotted, Chopra said. But BJP and AAP are trying to take credit for these flats, he alleged.
Both Chopra and Sharma alleged that BJP and AAP were misleading over 40 lakh residents of the unauthorised colonies in the capital in the name of giving ownership rights.
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