Rehabilitation Programs: No Property Rights for Residents of Rehabilitation Homes in Chandigarh

No property rights for residents of rehabilitation homes: UT

Chandigarh: This is a major blow to residents living in 34,695 houses constructed under the Chandigarh Rehabilitation Programme between 1980 and 2019, UT Administration made it clear that he had no plans to provide property rights residents of such rehabilitation homes. The administration added that there was also no proposal to allow their conversion from leasehold residential properties to leasehold free properties. The administration informed the Centre that this was being done to ensure long-term stability and integrity rehabilitation programs in the city.
The administration gave these details in response to a question raised by the Centre in the Lok Sabha. In response to the reason for not giving ownership rights to households in the city’s rehabilitation colonies, the UT estate office wrote, “These spaces have been allotted to ensure long-term sustainability and integrity of the rehabilitation programmes. It is also to prevent unauthorised transfers and sub-letting that could undermine the purpose of the programmes. It is also to regulate the use and occupation of the allotted houses to ensure that they are used only by the intended beneficiaries. Ownership rights cannot be given to the allotted persons as this will increase the likelihood of sale and purchase of these tenements, leading to re-emergence of slums, defeating the policy objective of resettlement of slum dwellers.”
The UT estate office informed the Centre that these houses were allotted with the aim of providing housing and rehabilitation to economically weaker sections of society living in slum areas in labour colonies and other parts of Chandigarh by resettling them in low-cost tenements. These places were allotted on the basis of monthly licence fee and lease.
In response to a question about the UT study, he said: “A study on several rehabilitation colonies was conducted by the UT real estate office in 2012.

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