Orissa HC Prohibits BDA To Allot Multiple Plots To Individuals

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court on Monday prohibited the allotment of multiple plots to one individual from various development authorities in the state.

Reportedly, a single bench of Justice Biswanath Rath has ruled that a person can only get one plot from any development authority. At the same time, the court emphasised the need to make the rules and regulations of the Housing and Urban Development Department more stringent. It directed all development authorities to implement this rule with immediate effect.

As per the order, the BDA has been restricted from allotting plots to those who have already received them from the authority under any of its development schemes operating in the city or any other development scheme in the city/ other districts.

The purpose of the court’s directive was to make plots available to all bonafide citizens.

“Before parting with the case, this Court likes to put an observation for future caring in the allotment of land by the Development Authority involved herein to at least put a ‘cap’/ “restriction” on applicant by the party already in receipt of land from the Development Authority under any of its Development Schemes operated in city or under any other development scheme in the city and even in any other development scheme of any other district at least to make it available to all bonafide citizens instead of allotting multiple land in favour of particular individuals, who are already in the entitlement of a land by such agencies may in any of the districts,” the court said.