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RTI Application to Seek Floor Area Ratio (FAR) Construction Information from DDA

As a journalist and environmental activist, I have been running citywide campaigns to stop FAR construction.

By Rakesh Raman

Floor Area Ratio (FAR) Construction in Delhi’s Cooperative Group Housing Societies (CGHS) is a dangerous work which spreads harmful pollution and causes accidents in housing complexes where people (men, women, children, and senior citizens) are living. 

As a journalist and environmental activist, I have been running citywide campaigns to stop FAR construction. In March / April 2024, I had sent RTI applications to various departments including Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Delhi Police, Registrar Cooperative Societies (RCS) of Delhi Government, and Delhi Fire Service (DFS) to seek FAR information. 

But none of these departments gave me the information that I demanded in my RTI applications because FAR work is a massive construction-cum-corruption scheme being run in Delhi by builders’ mafia in connivance with criminal management committee (MC) members of housing societies and corrupt government officials. 

Again, I sent the following RTI application to DDA.

To                                                                                                                October 3, 2024

The Public Information Officer (PIO)
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India / DDA

Subject: RTI Application to Seek Information under the Right to Information Act 2005
Name of the Applicant: Rakesh Raman

Dear PIO at MoHUA / Delhi Development Authority (DDA),

Please provide me with the following information under the RTI Act:

1. List of Cooperative Group Housing Societies of Delhi where Floor Area Ratio* (FAR) construction has been approved / sanctioned during 2018 to 2024.

2. List of Cooperative Group Housing Societies of Delhi where Floor Area Ratio (FAR) construction has been stopped during 2018 to 2024.

3. List of Cooperative Group Housing Societies of Delhi where Floor Area Ratio (FAR) construction projects are being carried out by Design N Design Architects.

4. List of Cooperative Group Housing Societies of Delhi where Floor Area Ratio (FAR) construction projects are being carried out by Om Star Constructions Pvt Ltd.

5. List of Cooperative Group Housing Societies of Delhi from where residents have complained against Floor Area Ratio (FAR) construction during 2018 to 2024.

6. List of Cooperative Group Housing Societies of Delhi from where residents have filed court cases against Floor Area Ratio (FAR) construction.

7. Give me the official / DDA website address on which all FAR information is uploaded.

*Floor Area Ratio (FAR) or extended construction to add more rooms, balconies, etc. in occupied housing societies of Delhi. You can click here to watch a video and click here to read a report on FAR construction.

If this information is not available in your office, please forward my application to the concerned public information authority to seek information and provide it to me. 

Note: Delhi residents who oppose FAR construction can send me their complaints on the “Clean House” service that I have been running for the past 7 years to report about crime and corruption in housing societies. You can click here to know the process for filing your complaint.

By Rakesh Raman, who is a national award-winning journalist and social activist. He is the founder of the humanitarian organization RMN Foundation which is working in diverse areas to help the disadvantaged and distressed people in the society.

Rakesh Raman
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