All about Haryana’s Deen Dayal Jan Awas Yojana

The Haryana government, in 2016, launched the state-run Deen Dayal Jan Awas Yojana (DDJAY) under the provisions of Section 9A of the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975. Designed to check the mushrooming of unauthorised colonies in Haryana, the scheme aimed at providing affordable housing to all.

Deen Dayal Jan Awas Yojana: Purpose

The scheme is ‘intended to encourage the development of high-density plotted colonies in low and medium potential towns of Haryana where small plots are made available through a liberal policy framework’.

Deen Dayal Jan Awas Yojana: Key parameters

Areas covered: The projects under this policy are allowed only in the residential zone of the notified development plans of low and medium potential towns in Haryana.

Project size: In any residential sector, not more than 30% of the net planned area under the residential zone, inclusive of the 20% area limit allowed for group housing projects, can be allowed for projects under this policy. However, if a residential sector has an area of less than 50 acres, one such project will be allowed up to 15 acres.

Under the scheme, the minimum and maximum net planned area for the projects is 5 acres and 15 acres, respectively. However, this was changed through an amendment in 2022.

‘The upper area limit of 15 acres for grant of license under the DDJAY policy stipulated vide Clause 2(ii) of policy instructions issued vide memo No. PF-27A/2700 dated 08.02.2016 shall no longer apply, subject to the 40% NPA limit in a sector not being breached, as already prescribed. In addition, the minimum area limit of 10 acres is defined for FDP, GMUC-2031 vide Memo No. PF-64-II/8/16/2019-2TCP dated 12.09.2019 shall hereafter be at par with that of the rest for the State of Haryana, i.e., 5 acres,’ the government said in a notification.

Project completion timeline: Projects under the scheme are required to be completed within 7 years from the date of the granting of the licence.

August 2022 amendment to the scheme

In 2022, the Haryana government said that the builders must transfer 10% of the area of the licenced colony, free of cost, to the government for community facilities. Alternatively, they could develop such an area on their own or through a third party, subject to the following conditions:

1. To construct such a community site at its own cost, which shall not be loaded/levied on the residents.
2. The type of community site will be specified by the director based on the community infrastructure requirement at the sector level.
3. The builder will not be allowed to sell such community building without the director’s approval and the proceeds of the same shall be transferred to the RWA.
4. The builder will not be allowed to earn any profit, such as membership charges/fees, from such community building.
5. The builder will have to complete the community site and get the occupation certificate before obtaining a full/partial completion certificate.

In the notification, the state government removed the provision of freezing 50% of the saleable area under the scheme.

‘As a matter of security against any possible delinquencies in completion of the project, the builder shall be required to mortgage residential plots covering a saleable area of 10%, each against the Bank Guarantee required on account of IDW as well as EDC in favour of the director,’ it said. This rule will apply to all existing as well as new licences, it added.

See also: How to apply for Haryana Housing Board homes?

State discontinues scheme in Gurgaon and Faridabad

Through a notification in April 2023, the Haryana government suspended the Gurgaon and Faridabad district schemes for being ‘unaffordable’ to the common man. ‘The pending licence applications received before 08.12.2022 in which no letter of intent was granted under the DDJAY policy in Final Development Plan-2031 AD GMUC and the Final Development Plan-2031 AD Faridabad shall be returned along with the scrutiny fee and license fee deposited by the applicants,’ it said in the notification.

2023 amendment to the policy

In 2023, changes were made to the scheme based on the fact that low and medium potential towns in Haryana showed a preference for plotted colonies to group housing, even though these towns had limited growth points due to limited land availability.

Through an amendment announced on October 27, 2023, the Haryana government said that if the total DDJAY licenced area of a town is less than 10% of the total area of the residential zone, excluding the area under the existing town, there will be a cap of 60% on the net planned area for allowing DDJAY licences in each sector till it reaches 5%. Furthermore, a cap of 50% on NPA will be applicable till the DDJAY-licensed area of the town reaches 10%. As and when the abovementioned limit of 10% is breached, the cap of 40% of the net planned residential area in a sector for DDJAY licences will become applicable.

Applications and eligibility

• The license applications received under this policy should be made in the format as prescribed in Rule 3 of the Haryana Development and Regulations of Urban Areas Rules, 1976.
• The opening window for receipt of licence applications under the policy is 90 days from policy notification.
• In case the receipt of licence applications in a particular sector is less than the total area permitted in that sector, all the eligible applications will be considered subject to the minimum area norm.
• Applications are entertained on an ongoing basis till the availability of area in any specific sector and/or any specific development plan vis-à-vis the area limits prescribed under this policy gets licenced.

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