Section 116A:
Classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of base unit area values therefore.
1[116A. Classification of vacant lands and buildings into colonies and groups and specification of
base unit area values therefore.---(1) The Municipal Valuation Committee shall recommend the
classification of the vacant lands and buildings in any ward of Delhi, referred to in section 5, into colonies
and groups of lands and buildings after taking into account the following parameters:--
(a) settlement pattern such as plotted housing, group housing, colony with flats only, urban village,
unauthorized colony, resettlement colony, rural village and non-residential areas;
(b) availability of civic and social infrastructure;
(c) access to roads;
(d) access to district centres, local shopping centres, convenience shopping centres, and other
markets;
(e) land prices as may, from time to time, be notified by 2[the 3[Government]] or the Delhi
Development Authority;
(f) use-wise category of any building including residential building, business building, mercantile
building, building for recreation and sports purposes, industrial building, hazardous building and public
purpose building including educational, medical and such other institutional building and farmhouse,
as may be specified by 4[5[the Corporation]];
(g) in the case of buildings used for business, mercantile, recreation and sports, industrial,
hazardous, storage or farmhouse purposes, the location of such buildings adjacent to such categories of
streets, as may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), be specified by 4[5[the Corporation]];
(h) the types of buildings which may be classified as pucca, semi-pucca or katcha, as may be
specified by 1
4[5[the Corporation]];
(i) the age-wise grouping of buildings as may be specified by 4[5[the Corporation]]; and
(j) such other parameters as may be considered relevant by the Municipal Valuation Committee.
(2) The Municipal Valuation Committee shall recommend, group wise,--
(a) the base unit area value of any owner-occupied vacant land, or any wholly owner-occupied
building of pucca structure, constructed in the year 2000 or thereafter, and put to exclusive residential
use, and
(b) the factor for increasing or decreasing, or for not increasing or decreasing, the base unit area
values specified in clause (a), separately in respect of each of the parameters of type of colony, use,
age, type of structure and occupancy status of the vacant land or building, as the case may be, subject
to a lower limit of zero point five and upper limit of ten point zero.
Notes:
1. Ins. by Delhi Act 6 of 2003, s. 8 (w.e.f. 1-8-2003).
2. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2 "the Government" (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
3. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for "Government" (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
4. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2 "the Corporation" (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
5. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for "a Corporation" (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).