After initially dismissing its 2004 Assembly poll promise of regularising pre-2000 slums as a ‘printing error’ and subsequently exploiting the same issue in the run-up to the 2009 polls, the Congress-led Democratic Front Government on Tuesday finally came out a Government Resolution (GR) extending the cut-off date for regularisation of illegal slums from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2000.
Seeking to derive political mileage out of the pro-urban poor initiative in the Maharashtra Assembly polls, the DF Government formalised its long-pending move to regularise all the illegal slums that have come up in the State prior to January 1, 2000.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithivraj Chavan announced the issuance of the GR on Twitter late on Tuesday night and described the decision as ‘historic’.
