Orissa High Court restricts BDA to allot multiple plots to individuals

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has restricted the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) to allot multiple plots to individuals in the city under its schemes.

The directive of the court came while a single bench of Justice Biswanath Rath was hearing a petition related to allotment of multiple plots by the BDA under discretionary quota.

As per the order, the BDA has been restricted from allotting plots to those who have already received it from the authority under any of its development schemes operating in the city or any other development scheme in the city/ other districts.

The purpose of the court’s directive was to make plots available to all bonafide citizens.

“Before parting with the case, this Court likes to put an observation for future caring in the allotment of land by Development Authority involved herein to at least put a ‘cap’/ “restriction” on applicant by the party already in receipt of land from the Development Authority under any of its Development Schemes operated in city or under any other development scheme in the city and even in any other development scheme of any other district at least to make it available to all bonafide citizens instead of allotting multiple land in favour of particular individuals, who are already in entitlement of a land by such agencies may in any of the districts,” the court said.