Thursday, 3 June 2021

Owners Outrightly Reject Model Tenancy Act approved by Union Cabinet on 02.06.2021 – its rightful place is WPB!

 

To

The Chief Reporter/News Editor,

New Delhi

 

The National Campaign Committee for Rental Law Reform (NCCRLR) outrightly rejects Model Tenancy Act approved by Union Cabinet – its rightful place is WPB. This Act deliberately and for political reasons ensures that owners of properties – which have been let out under the rent control laws in many states especially in cities like Mumbai, Delhi etc. – get no relief whatsoever and will continue to be paid between Rs. 10 to 100 a month! The market rent for such properties would be running into lakhs.

 

The incumbent at the PMO right in 2014 had assured that all old and obsolete laws would be rooted out of the statues book. So is the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs openly defying the road map for deletion of old laws? An act of rebellion?

 

Future course of Action

 

The NCCRLR appeals to all its constituent members to ensure that their respective state assemblies do not pass such a regressive law using all democratic, legal peaceful methods including popular protests. This has become necessary because successive governments since last thirty years have been parroting the issue of Model Tenancy Act; but without initiating legislative action. The Union Government should lead by action and repeal the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 in toto which it – and not the Delhi Government – has the power to do.

 

P. S. Sahni

Convener, National Campaign Committee for Rental Law Reform


    

 

 

 

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