Policy Briefs & Reports

While the government has created a long, complex, and cumbersome process for regularisation, it has resulted in little. By any reasonable definition of regularisation, residents should receive improved infrastructure and more stable land tenure as a result of the process. Here’s what happened in the cases this report examines:

What the previous Delhi Government vaunted as the “regularisation of colonies” amounts to a list of colonies that are eligible for regularisation. In effect, only 312 of the 895 UACs stood regularised as of the September 2012 order.
It is safe to say that the way the process has panned out, regularisation was not a necessary prerequisite for service provisioning.
Only residents in a fraction of the 312 colonies can register sale deeds for their properties.
A report of the Cities of Delhi project.