One person can't buy more than one Govt plot
The Orissa High Court has barred the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) from allocating multiple plots in the city under its schemes.
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Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has barred the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) from allocating multiple plots in the city under its schemes.
The order was issued by a single bench of Justice Biswanath Rath while hearing a petition regarding the development authority's allotment of multiple plots under discretionary quota (DQ), which would ensure that plots are available to all bona fide citizens.
“Before parting with the case, this Court likes to put an observation for future caring in the allotment of land by Development Authority involved herein to at least put a ‘cap’/ “restriction” on applicant by the party already in receipt of land from the Development Authority under any of its Development Schemes operated in city or under any other development scheme in the city and even in any other development scheme of any other district at least to make it available to all bonafide citizens instead of allotting multiple land in favour of particular individuals, who are already in entitlement of a land by such agencies may in any of the districts,” the court said.
Under discretionary quota, a BDA Junior Assistant obtained a plot in the Kalinga Nagar Plotted Development Scheme. He later transferred the plot to one Farhat Nizami with the BDA's approval. The petitioner also had a commercial plot in Chandrasekharpur that the BDA had allotted to him on September 15, 2001 under the District Centre Commercial Plotted Development Scheme. He petitioned the court after the third plot was not allotted to him despite the fact that he was in quota for it.
"This Court finds that considering petitioner to be entitled to another plot would jeopardize the interests of persons who have yet to be allocated a single plot," Justice Rath stated.
