14.6.9 Eligibility

1. Protected Occupiers Inhabitants of the slums or slum rehabilitation areas residing on 1st January 2000 shall be Protected Occupiers as defined in Chapter I-B of the Slum Act and orders issued thereunder and shall be eligible for rehabilitation under the Slum Rehabilitation scheme, in accordance with the provisions of this Scheme. The eligibility of such Protected Occupiers shall be decided as per the guidelines provided by the Government Resolutions issued from time to time.

(1) 2. Non-Protected Occupiers Inhabitants of the slums or slum rehabilitation are as residing on1st January 2011, shall be Non-Protected Occupiers as defined in the Slum Act and shall be eligible for rehabilitation under the Slum Rehabilitation scheme, in accordance with the provisions of this Scheme. The eligibility of such Non-Protected Occupiers shall be decided as per the guidelines provided by the government resolutions issued from time to time.

3. Ineligible Occupiers The occupants of slum who are neither held eligible as Protected Occupiers nor Non- Protected Occupiers shall be held ineligible and they will not be entitled for rehabilitation under any Slum Rehabilitation Scheme. However they may avail the benefits of any other housing scheme of the Government such as P.M.A.Y., if independently held eligible therein.

4. Provision relating to allotment of tenements either in situ or otherwise, on ownership free of cost to the protected occupiers The protected occupiers shall be rehabilitated in situ and they will be allotted rehabilitation tenement free of cost. However, in case the slum is situated on non-buildable area or the area under slum is required for any vital public project, then they will be rehabilitated by relocation. Such relocation shall be made on a land near the slum pocket as far as practicable, but within the same Municipal limit.

5. Provision relating to allotment of tenements either in situ or otherwise, on ownership or on rent to the other non-protected occupiers The non-protected occupiers shall as far as possible be rehabilitated in situ after the protected occupiers in the slum under the scheme and those in nearby non buildable slum are rehabilitated. They will be allotted rehabilitation tenement on payment of cost of tenement as prescribed by the Government Resolutions issued from time to time.

6. Subject to the foregoing provisions, only the actual occupants of the hutments shall be treated as eligible for rehabilitation under the S.R.S. and any person claiming ownership of such structure who is not the actual occupant of the same, shall have no right whatsoever to allotment of rehabilitation tenement.

7. The hutment dweller actually residing at present, who has purchased the censused structure with photo pass, if any, from any of the categories above shall be held eligible for rehabilitation under S.R.S., provided such transfer has been regularized. Provided further that the original owner of the censused structure who has sold the said, but shall be deemed to be ineligible for any alternative subsidized accommodation in any of the government scheme.

8. The names of the eligible hutment dwellers on private, Municipal and Government lands shall be duly certified by the Competent Authority in S.R.A. or any officer whom the State Government by notification appointed as the Competent Authority for the purpose of the Slum Act.

9. All eligible hutment dwellers residing on the area of the S.R.S. shall have to be accommodated on the same plot as far as possible.

10. Any hutment dweller who is in actual occupation or possession of more than one hutment within the jurisdiction of S.R.A. Pune shall not be held eligible for more than one rehab unit.

11. The eligibility of a person including transferees in case of Protected Occupier under the S.R.S. shall be established in accordance with the orders issued vide G.R. mentioned in clauses 1 above. The Hutment dweller, for establishing his eligibility shall submit his application in prescribed form along with Annexure for Self Declaration and Self Declaration for Self Attestation and the copies of the documents of evidence in the manner as prescribed by State Government.

(1) 12. The eligibility of a person including transferees in case of Non Protected occupier under the S.R.S. shall be established in accordance with the orders issued vide G.R. mentioned in clause 2 above. Hutment dweller, for establishing his eligibility shall submit his application in prescribed form along with Annexure for Self Declaration and Self Declaration for Self Attestation and the copies of the documents of evidence in the manner as prescribed by State Government.