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Retired bureaucrats urge PM to review Central Vista project
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They say various aspects of the project have been done in a high-handed manner
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Makeover mode: The Centre plans to redevelop the three km-long Central Vista from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate.
They say various aspects of the project have been done in a high-handed manner
A group of 69 retired All-India and Central services’ officers on Tuesday wrote in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that they were dismayed at the way the Central Vista redevelopment project was going ahead and urged the government to review it in its entirety.
Relief from punitive action is set to end on December 31
The Centre is considering a one-year extension of protection from demolitions and sealing granted to certain kinds of illegal constructions in Delhi that is set to end on December 31, according to multiple sources.
The protection from punitive action was given to slum clusters, illegal buildings and constructions in unauthorised colonies that existed as of March 31, 2002 till June 1, 2014 by the National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second (Amendment) Act, 2017. The Act was first passed in 2014, giving three-year immunity from action, and then amended to give another three years in 2017. Similar protections have been extended under various laws from 2006 onward.
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