Difference in real value of land & circle rates is not only facilitating black money but revenue loss is happening.

Jeet Bhaskar, Delhi

13th January 2015

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As per sources, Aam Aadmi Party govt has settled the new rates between Rs 1-3.5 crore/acre from the prior Rs 53 lakh/acre of land. Charging that this price escalation was taken without the LG's permission, the PIL had looked for suppress of the August 4 warning, which had as of now pursued into inconvenience LG Najeeb Jung ordered the Arvind Kejriwal govt to keep up business as usual till the issue was analyzed legally.

Arpit, Delhi-NCR

19th August 2015

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Hi Guys,
As per the latest news, the Delhi High Court dismisses a PIL against an AAP govt notice upgrading the circle rates of rural area(agricultural land) in the capital by 3 times. Kindly discuss.

Raj Roy, Delhi

19th August 2015

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Hi Raj,
As per the news, bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath declared that, no case is made out as the notice was issued for the sake of the lieutenant governor. The court passed the request after the applicant, who had looked for subduing of the August 4 notice, neglected to answer the seat's question regarding who has the authority to authorize the same.

Jeet Bhaskar, Delhi

19th August 2015

Yes Jeet, that is right. But on the other hand, the bench was told by the Delhi govt that according to the Transaction of Business Rules, the notice must be issued for the sake of the LG and the same has been consented to.

Raj Roy, Delhi

19th August 2015

Hi Guys,
According to sources, as the notice was issued for the sake of LG, no case is made out. The writ appeal is rejected. The appeal filed by a property dealer, Mr Gopal Gupta, had asserted that the notice issued by the Delhi government was invalid as it has been issued with no authority.

Richa, Delhi

19th August 2015

Hi Guys,

The observations of the Commission came on a plea of an activist S P Manchanda who had given detailed description to Delhi government on the loopholes in the process to determine rates of land in various circles resulting in revenue loss. All this is facilitated by the absence of "minimum governance" at the higher level where the powers that be prefer to relax and refuse to decide what is the value of the land.

Vibhor, Delhi

13th January 2015

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@ jeet,

As per my knowledge, in his submission to Delhi Government in 2013, Manchanda had claimed that the circle rates have been wrongfully kept uniform all over the national capital which is resulting in serious revenue loss to the exchequer.

Rakesh, Bangalore

14th January 2015

Hi Jeet,

According to me, Kesav Puram, market rate of an MIG flat is Rs 1.4 crore whereas the stamp duty collected on the basis of circle rate which is Rs 40 lakh thereby stamp duty on the value of Rs one crore is lost. Similarly in Narela, the value of flat is 15 lakh but the circle rate is as high as Rs 37 lakh on which the stamp duty is collected hence there are no buyers of the flats in that area,

Kajal, Delhi-NCR

14th January 2015

Hi All,

During the hearing, the Delhi Government representative accepted the anomaly and said a new section has been inserted in the Indian Stamps Act as a corrective measure. Lauding Manchanda's efforts, Acharyulu termed the RTI application as "one of the best" in the interest of fulfilling the objectives of the Right to Information Act.

Kashif Ahmed, Delhi-NCR

15th January 2015

@ Jeet,
A simple and ordinary person, Mr S P Manchanda is in fact, not seeking any information from the public authority but making a very constructive suggestion after pointing out how much of revenue the Government was loosing every day because of the indifference and delay in developing a rational valuation of land policy

Neha Srivastava, Delhi-NCR

16th January 2015

According to me, Because of this every selfish person or profit motivated corporate body is trying to take prime government land using the corruption as an easy tool and making huge profits at the cost of public exchequer and imposing burden on common consumers.

Pranab Malakar, Delhi

13th January 2015

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Hi Bhaskar,

Using its powers under the RTI Act, Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu directed the Chief Secretary to have "serious look" at the policy of circle rates and put them on the website.

Expressing concerns over impact of poor land valuation on the RTI Act .The Commission finds in many cases before it that several public authorities are escaping accountability under RTI by showing value of the land given to them by the government as 'commercial value' which is an open lie as every one knows the real value would be thousand times more than what it was shown to be.

Praveen P, Delhi

13th January 2015

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As per my knowledge, several hospitals, sports clubs, cricket associations are claiming that the land was given to them at commercial rate, simply because the state does not have any document to say that they have properly assessed the value of the land in a particular area.

Nikhil Agarwal, Delhi

13th January 2015

Hi Jeet,
Difference in real value of land and circle rates in the national capital is not only facilitating black money inflow in the property market but also causing revenue loss to the exchequer, the Central Information Commission has said. It has also directed the Chief Secretary to review the policy and carry out an inquiry.

Sufia, Delhi

13th January 2015

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