Motnath Residency is authorities housing venture for low-income group households (Representational)

Vadodara:

A number of residents of a housing advanced constructed by the Vadodara Municipal Company (VMC) underneath a Gujarat authorities scheme have been staging protests towards the allotment of an condominium to a Muslim girl, saying the locality is supposed for Hindus solely.

Demanding that the allotted flat be cancelled, the residents warned of intensifying their agitation and taking on the matter with the state and the Centre.

The girl beneficiary stated though she was allotted the home six years again, she couldn’t transfer in as a result of opposition from different residents.

The residents declare that homes can’t be allotted to members of the minority communities as a result of the Harni space, the place the advanced is positioned, is a Hindu locality and falls underneath the Disturbed Areas Act that bans the sale of property by members of 1 non secular group to these from one other with out prior approval from the district collector in areas declared as “disturbed areas”.

Municipal Commissioner of Vadodara Dilip Rana stated he obtained illustration from the residents of Motnath Residency within the Harni space and an acceptable choice shall be taken after finding out all related paperwork.

“I’ve simply obtained a illustration from the residents. I’ll examine all of the paperwork after which make an acceptable choice. Now we have a provision underneath which Hindus and Muslims are given flats of their respective areas. This is applicable to housing initiatives which might be located in disturbed areas. Now we have to examine if this society falls in that class,” he stated.

Motnath Residency, which has almost 460 flats, is the VMC’s housing venture for low-income group households underneath the state authorities’s Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana.

Residents have been protesting and writing letters to totally different authorities after a Muslim girl, who at present lives elsewhere, was allotted a home in 2018.

“Although I used to be allotted the home method again in 2018, I couldn’t transfer in due to the opposition from different residents. Even at the moment, there is no such thing as a answer in sight. I at present dwell on the different place with my son,” she stated.

Over 50 residents of Motnath Residency protested close to the society’s major gate at the moment demanding the allotment be cancelled.

“Though all the space falls underneath the Disturbed Areas Act, one flat on this society, having 12 towers, has been allotted to a Muslim girl. We do not know the way this allotment was made. All of us bought flats on this society pondering that we can dwell peacefully due to that regulation,” stated Jitendra Parmar, one of many agitating residents.

“We aren’t towards anybody. We simply need her to be allotted a home in her space so that everybody can dwell peacefully. Regardless of our protest, her flat was not transferred to a different scheme by the VMC. If the allotment isn’t cancelled, we’ll intensify our stir and stage protests in Gandhinagar and Delhi,” stated Parmar.

One other agitating resident backed him.

“It is a Hindu space and there’s a provision that claims minorities shouldn’t be allotted flats in Hindu areas. Nevertheless, since a flat has been allotted to an individual from a minority group, different residents have been protesting for the final a number of years and have given a memorandum to the authorities prior to now too. Nevertheless, the VMC isn’t cancelling the allotment,” stated the resident who doesn’t want to be recognized.

“The VMC earlier introduced that minorities could be allotted homes of their areas like Tandalja and Akota. If our demand isn’t met, we’ll stage protests exterior the places of work and residences of corporators, MLAs, and MPs. We’ll gherao Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel in Gandhinagar if the problem isn’t resolved,” he stated.

The Gujarat Prohibition of Switch of Immovable Property and the Provision for Safety of Tenants from Eviction from Premises in Disturbed Areas Act, 1991, generally known as the Disturbed Areas Act, is geared toward stopping misery sale of properties in communally-sensitive areas.

Underneath this Act, the permission of the district collector is necessary for the sale or switch of property within the areas notified as ‘disturbed’ to make sure that the sale was not out of any misery or compulsion and to see that the vendor had obtained a good value.

This Act is at present in pressure in elements of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Khambhat, Bharuch, Kapadvanj, Anand and Godhra cities.

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