Dog policy, gas plant land on board meeting’s agenda

Noida: From reschedulement policy for defaulting builders and dog policy (for Greater Noida) to allocating land for a compressed biogas plant and approving new plot schemes, several important issues are likely to come up for discussion at the board meetings of the Noida Authority and GNIDA slated for December 28.
Builders altogether owe over Rs 39,500 crore to the two authorities — Rs 26,000 crore to Noida and Rs 13,500 crore to GNIDA.
Officials said the reschedulement policy is aimed at providing some reprieve to these defaulting builders who have already expressed their inability to pay such huge sums. They would be given additional time to clear dues in multiple instalments so that they can also collect funds or loans from banks. There are as many as 197 projects in Greater Noida and 135 of them have outstanding dues. In Noida, about 100 out of 116 projects fall in the defaulting category.
Greater Noida will also have a dog policy on the lines of the Noida Authority, making registration, vaccination and sterilisation of pet dogs mandatory. Failure to register or sterilise pet dogs and cats could result in the imposition of hefty fines. The policy will also lay down the norms for pet owners while taking out dogs for walks and public places, besides feeding points for stray dogs, TOI has learnt.
Similarly, Noida has decided to set up its compressed biogas plant which will produce 50 tonnes of organic manure along with compressed biogas from 200 tonnes of wet waste, in Astauli village of Greater Noida. Officials said that the Noida Authority would take this land from GNIDA. For this, legal work has started. An agenda in this regard will be placed during the board meeting. Earlier, it was proposed to be set up in Sector 123, but residents had opposed the move.
A scheme of LIG, HIG, MIG flats built by the Noida Authority is also going to be launched following the board’s approval. Over 380 unsold and surrendered flats in sectors 71, 73, 82, 93, 99, 118, 135 would be allotted through e-auction. The reserve price of flats ranges from Rs 45 lakh to Rs 1.8 crore. Brochures of plot schemes in several categories would also be put for approval before the GNIDA board, sources said.
The matter related to the Chilla Elevated Road, which will connect Delhi’s Mayur Vihar with the Noida Expressway, is likely to be discussed before the board. The Noida Authority’s technical audit cell was recently asked to examine a revised budget estimate (Rs 912 crore) prepared by the UP State Bridge Corporation, which is the construction agency, and inform if the revised estimate is justified. The construction started in January 2019, but till now only 13% of the work has been completed.