Delhi Development Authority to hand over 700 flats in Delhi's Kathputli Colony for slum remediation project

The wait for Kathputli Colony's residents to obtain their promised one-bedroom flats in multistory complexes is set to end next month, fourteen years after Delhi Development Authority's (DDA) first in situ slum remediation project there was announced. The complex's apartment buildings are now finished, and the first group of 2,800 apartments—more than 700—will be delivered in September.
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New Delhi: The wait for Kathputli Colony's residents to obtain their promised one-bedroom flats in multistory complexes is set to end next month, fourteen years after Delhi Development Authority's (DDA) first in situ slum remediation project there was announced.
The complex's apartment buildings are now finished, and the first group of 2,800 apartments—more than 700—will be delivered in September. Prime Minister Narendra Modi may deliver the first few apartments to the occupants as early as next month, according to reports. According to them, the remaining apartments should be delivered by July of the following year.
The apartment buildings were lighted in tricolours on Monday, and colony inhabitants flew flags from the now-completed apartments.
DDA's first in-situ slum rehabilitation project, Kathputli Colony, was awarded to Raheja Developers in August 2009 under a Public-Private Partnership model after a tender enquiry was published in 2008. 2,800 apartments in 14-story towers would be provided as part of the reconstruction plan to slum residents who had been there for close to 40 years. The developer would be allowed to build and sell some freehold HIG apartments and commercial built-up space equivalent to 10% of EWS floor area ratio instead of building the EWS dwellings.
Residents of the Kathputli Colony, many of whom are artists, put on performances at the complex's amphitheatre on Monday night, including folk dancing, chorus singing, kathputli dance, magic show, etc.
"To make this happen, I have given up everything for the past 13 years. To witness these slum dwellers, receiving their dream home will be a proud moment and a life's mission fulfilled, according to Navin M. Raheja, CMD of Raheja Developers Ltd.
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