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Section 116A: Classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of base unit area values therefore.

The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957Central Act · Act 66 of 1957

[116A. Classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of base unit area values therefore.---(1) The Municipal Valuation Committee shall recommend the classification of the vacant lands and buildings in any ward of Delhi, referred to in section 5, into colonies and groups of lands and buildings after taking into account the following parameters:--

(a) settlement pattern such as plotted housing, group housing, colony with flats only, urban village, unauthorized colony, resettlement colony, rural village and non-residential areas;

(b) availability of civic and social infrastructure;

(c) access to roads;

(d) access to district centres, local shopping centres, convenience shopping centres, and other markets;

(e) land prices as may, from time to time, be notified by [the [Government]] or the Delhi Development Authority;

(f) use-wise category of any building including residential building, business building, mercantile building, building for recreation and sports purposes, industrial building, hazardous building and public purpose building including educational, medical and such other institutional building and farmhouse, as may be specified by [[the Corporation]];

(g) in the case of buildings used for business, mercantile, recreation and sports, industrial, hazardous, storage or farmhouse purposes, the location of such buildings adjacent to such categories of streets, as may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), be specified by [[the Corporation]];

(h) the types of buildings which may be classified as pucca, semi-pucca or katcha, as may be specified by 1 [[the Corporation]];

(i) the age-wise grouping of buildings as may be specified by [[the Corporation]]; and

(j) such other parameters as may be considered relevant by the Municipal Valuation Committee.

(2) The Municipal Valuation Committee shall recommend, group wise,--

(a) the base unit area value of any owner-occupied vacant land, or any wholly owner-occupied building of pucca structure, constructed in the year 2000 or thereafter, and put to exclusive residential use, and

(b) the factor for increasing or decreasing, or for not increasing or decreasing, the base unit area values specified in clause (a), separately in respect of each of the parameters of type of colony, use, age, type of structure and occupancy status of the vacant land or building, as the case may be, subject to a lower limit of zero point five and upper limit of ten point zero.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957
Section116A
Marginal noteClassification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of base unit area values therefore.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • inserted, Delhi Act 6 of 2003. . Ins. by Delhi Act 6 of 2003, s. 8 (w.e.f. 1-8-2003).
  • substituted, Delhi Act 12 of 2011. . Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2 "the Government" (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
  • substituted, Act 10 of 2022. . Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for "Government" (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
  • substituted, Delhi Act 12 of 2011. . Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2 "the Corporation" (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
  • substituted, Act 10 of 2022. . Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for "a Corporation" (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).

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