Haryana Cabinet which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister
Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal presiding over the meeting of State Cabinet in Chandigarh on July 6, 2020.
Haryana Cabinet which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today approved the policy for transfer of Municipal Lands by charging consideration.
- Chandigarh April 22: Haryana Cabinet which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today approved the policy for transfer of Municipal Lands by charging consideration.
- The Policy may be called ‘Policy for transfer of Municipal Lands by charging consideration.’ It will come into force on the date it is notified by the Government.
- This Policy would apply on the categories of properties/persons, where due to exigencies or otherwise, no approach road is available to the land owned by private individuals or entities, In such cases, where no approach road is available to land owned or, as the case may be, held on lease for a minimum period of 30 years or more, by private individuals or entities and it is possible to provide approach access through the land owned by the respective Municipal Body, the respective Municipal Body shall provide land for being utilized for the purposes of constructing approach road (rasta) against the consideration equal to the market rate of the said land which is proposed to be transferred, provided that such transfer cannot be claimed as a matter of right and the decision of government, purely on the discretion of the Government, on all aspects related to the transfer including shall be final.
- Where, due to exigencies or otherwise, insufficient approach road/road width is available to the land owned by private individuals or entities, in such cases where the land of Municipal Bodies is required by private individuals or entities to satisfy the lawfully prescribed requirement of any authority established by law and where insufficient approach width/wide road is available to land owned or, as the case may be, held on lease for a minimum period of 30 years or more, by private individuals or entities and it is possible to augment the width of the road satisfying the lawfully prescribed requirement of any authority established by law by incorporating whole or a part of the land owned by the respective Municipal Body, following options may be considered by the Government, If by permitting the said land to be transferred to such individuals/entity, no public purpose stands to be compromised Such minimum land as is required to make the width of approach ‘sufficient’ to satisfy the lawfully prescribed requirement of any authority established by law shall be considered by the Government to be transferred to such individual/entity by charging the value of land at market rate, provided that such transfer cannot be claimed as a matter of right and the decision of government on all aspects related to the transfer including as to whether ‘Public Purpose stand to be compromised or not’ shall be final.
- Where, due to exigencies or otherwise, land owned by Municipal Body is embedded within land owned by private individuals or entities, in such cases If the land(s) belonging to the Municipal Body sought to be transferred to such individuals/entity is embedded in the land owned by individuals/entity and, on such transfer, no public purpose stands to be compromised Such land shall be considered by the Government to be transferred to such individual/entity by charging the value of land at market rate, provided that such transfer cannot be claimed as a matter of right and the decision of government on all aspects related to the transfer shall be final. If the land(s) belonging to the Municipal Body sought to be transferred to such individuals/entity is embedded in the land owned by individuals/entity and, on such transfer, some public purpose stand to be compromised, such permission authorizing the transfer shall be purely discretionary in the hands of the Government and shall only be considered after protecting the purposes of the ‘Public Purpose’ in terms of this policy.
- Where, a necessity, not otherwise explicity covered in this policy, is felt by the government to consider transfer/exchange of Municipal land to/with the land owned by private individuals or entities, in such cases owing to the assessment of the merit of individual proposal on case to case basis, the Government may, in its discretion, make an appropriate decision, provided that when it is decided to transfer such any land, the reasons of making such decision shall be recorded in writing and the transfer shall be subject to such terms and conditions as deemed fit by the Government. Such transfer can only be made by charging value of land at market rate and the decision of the Government shall be final.
- This policy shall not apply when land is proposed to be exchanged/transferred/purchased by the Municipal Bodies from any organ of the Government of the State of Haryana or any organ of Central Government/Government of any other State/Union Territory Government or any organization wholly or substantially owned or controlled by the Central Government/any State (including State of Haryana)/Union Territory Government.
