After the multicrore land scam widened focus to include MCD officials in its net, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi cancelled the allotment of 7371 plots in eight of its slum rehabilitation schemes. These include rehabilitation schemes in Narela, Bhalaswa, Rohini, Molarbandh, Sawda Ghevra, Samaipur and Holambi Kalans.

The cancellation orders have come from the MCD’s Slum and JJ department. The CBI unearthed land scam in Molarbandh involving seven MCD officials during its investigation against alleged scam kingpin Ashok Malhotra.
Senior officials, though, claim the plots were cancelled following an inquiry initiated by the department on July 9 this year.

Additional Commissioner A B Shukla said they were looking at computerisation of the department since this February. An inquiry was initiated as part of an exercise to create a database of slum allotments by the department so far, Shukla said. As per the slum department’s inquiry report, these plots have been lying vacant for over a year, and the civic body will now initiate a process to check if they have been encroached upon, or resold by original allottees.

The report states that the maximum number of vacant plots (2,900) has been found in MCD’s scheme for slum dwellers in Bhatti mines in Sawda Ghewra, in north-west Delhi. These slum dwellers were removed from Bhatti mines, near Asola wildlife sanctuary, last year.

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