New Delhi:
Greater than 200 former Lok Sabha MPs, who’ve but to vacate their official bungalows in Lutyens’ Delhi, have been issued eviction notices, sources within the Union Housing and City Affairs Ministry mentioned on Monday.
The notices have been issued beneath the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act.
In line with guidelines, the previous MPs are required to vacate their official bungalows inside a month of dissolution of the earlier Lok Sabha.
“To this point, greater than 200 former MPs have been issued eviction notices for overstaying. They’ve been requested to vacate their official bungalows on the earliest. Course of to ship notices to extra former MPs is underway,” the sources informed PTI.
In the event that they fail to vacate their official lodging on the earliest, groups of officers will quickly be despatched for “forceful eviction”, the sources mentioned.
Though the Lok Sabha Secretariat gives lodging to the MPs, the Housing and City Affairs (HUA) ministry allots bungalows to the Union ministers in Lutyens’ Delhi.
Eviction proceedings are launched if former ministers and former MPs fail to vacate their official bungalows throughout the stipulated time interval.
In the meantime, Union Housing and City Affairs Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has been allotted 83 Lodhi Property bungalow which was earlier occupied by a former central info commissioner, one other supply mentioned.
The supply mentioned no eviction discover has been issued to any former Union minister for overstaying but.
Over 4 former Union ministers, together with Smriti Irani, have vacated their official bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi to date.
Ms Irani vacated her official bungalow at 28 Tughlak Crescent in Lutyens’
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