Historical Background

Before the creation of HSVP, the Urban Estates Department (U.E.D.) which was established in the year 1962, used to look after the work relating to planned development of urban areas and it functioned under the aegis of the Town & Country Planning Department. Its functioning was regulated by the Punjab Urban Estates Development and Regulations Act, 1964 and the rules made there under and the various development activities used to be carried out by different departments of the State Government such as PWD (B & R), Public Health, Haryana State Electricity Board etc. With the passage of time, it was experienced that the involvement of several agencies in the development of Urban Estates at various places was suffering from lack of coordination, with the result that growth of most of Urban Estates slowed down and caused unnecessary dis-satisfaction to the plot-holders in particular and public in general. Besides, as the Department had to follow the financial rules and regulations of Government, the arrangement of funds and sanction of estimates used to take a long time and the development works did not keep pace with the required standards of physical achievements. It was also felt that being a Government department, it was unable to raise resources from various lending institutions although there were many financial institutions in the country to finance urban development programmes and thus, it was benefit of availing these facilities. In nut-shell, the Urban Estates Department was not effective in achieving its defined goals of planed urban development to the satisfaction of the public at large. Thus, in order to over come all these difficulties and to achieve the expeditious development of urban estates, it was felt that the Department of Urban Estates should be converted into such a body which could take up all the development activities itself and provide various facilities in the Urban Estates expeditiously and consequently the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran came into existence on 13-01-1977 under the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran Act, 1977 to take over work, responsibilities hither to being handled by individual Government departments.

The functions of Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran are :-

To promote and secure development of urban areas in a systematic and planned way with the power to acquire sell and dispose off property, both movable and immovable.
Use this so acquired land for residential, industrial, recreational and commercial purpose.
To make available developed land to Haryana Housing Board and other bodies for providing houses to economically weaker sections of the society, and
To undertake building works.

1. Administrative set up of Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP)

The Authority consists of a Chairman, a Vice Chairman, a Chief Administrator and such other members (not more than 12 but not less than 6) appointed under notification issued from time to time, provided that the number of non-official members shall not, at any time exceed three.

The Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) is a statutory body under Haryana Urban Development Authority Act, 1977. The constitution of the Authority is as under:-

1.	Minister-in-Charge, Town & Country Planning Department	Chairman
2.	Chief Secretary to Government, Haryana.	Vice-Chairman
3.	Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Haryana, Chandigarh.	Chairman
4.	Financial Commissioner & Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Finance Department.	Member
5.	Financial Commissioner & Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Town & Country Planning Department	Member
6.	Financial Commissioner & Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Power Department.	Member
7.	Commissioner & Secretary to Government Haryana, Urban Development Department,	Member
8.	Director, Town & Country Planning Department.	Member
9.	Chief Administrator, Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran,	Member
10.	Engineer-in-Chief, PWD B & R, Haryana, Chandigarh.	Member
11.	Engineer-in-Chief, PWD, Water Supply and Sanitation Department, Haryana, Panchkula.	Member

Under Section-8 of the Haryana Urban Development Authority Act, 1977, the Authority is competent to appoint one or more committee for the purpose of ensuring the efficient dis-charge of the functions of the Authority and particularly for the purpose of ensuring the efficient maintenance of amenities and development projects. Accordingly, by virtue of these powers, the Authority has constituted a number of Committees/Sub Committees to take up decisions on various important matters.

The Chief Administrator at the Head-Quarter is the overall incharge and responsible for discharging the functions of the Authority. The Chief Administrator is assisted by 5 Zonal Administrators, posted at Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Panchkula and Rohtak and one Administrator at Head Quarter. The Chief Administrator is guided by the policies framed by the Authority headed by the Minister-in-charge (designated as the Chairman of the Authority) of the Town & Country Planning Department.

Zonal Administration:

The entire state is divided into 30 Urban Estates. The work of these Urban Estates is being supervised and monitored by 5 Zonal Administrators assisted by 18 Estate Officers. The main functions of these Estate Officers are to manage the estates by selling developed and undeveloped plots/properties of all categories of land and realize the revenue. All the financial receipt of transactions are looked after by the Estate Officers and channelized through the accounts branch of Head Office for expenditure on development activities. The Estate Officers are also responsible for pursuing the matters relating to the construction activities within the framework of construction and building byelaws applicable thereto. The Zonal Administrators acts as co-coordinators between various wings at zonal level engaged in the planned urban development of the respective areas and are responsible for the implementation of various schemes/projects being executed in these areas. The zonal Administrators are located at following places:-

a)	Administrator, HSVP, Faridabad	HSVP Complex, Sector 12, Faridabad.
b)	Administrator, HSVP, Gurgaon	HSVP Complex, Sector 14, Gurgaon.
c)	Administrator, HSVP, Hisar	HSVP Complex, Urban Estate II, Hisar.
d)	Administrator, HSVP, Panchkula	C-3, Sector-6, Panchkula
e)	Administrator, HSVP, Rohtak	Sector 1, Rohtak.

Functions of various wings of HSVP

i) Engineering Wing

Engineering wing is headed by a Chief Engineer. As soon as land is acquired and handed-over to HSVP, infrastructural development works are taken up by the Engineering wing as per approved layout plan/demarcation plan of the area and after providing the basic infrastructural facilities, possession of the plots is handed over to the Estate Office, who in turn offers the possession to the respective allottees. The basic infrastructural facilities include the approach road, electrification, water supply and sewerage facilities. The other infrastructural activities like community buildings, parks and other facilities are taken up simultaneously and are linked with the inhabitation in the Urban Estate.

ii) Finance Wing

Finance/Accounts Wing is headed by the Chief Controller of Finance which comprises of One Senior Accounts Officer at the Head Quarter and One with each of the Administrators, and their supporting staff posted in all the Estates, Circles, Divisional offices etc. This wing is responsible for the financial management of the Authority. The existing system of accounting at all levels including that of Engineering Wing is basically on the pattern of P.W.D. which is being replaced by the commercial system of accounts in such a way that it yields information required for planning and control of different functional areas and in the preparation of managerial reports. Similarly, the planning and control of material stores is of crucial significance which is being improved through introduction of performance budgeting, materials and inventory planning and control based on net work and cost control techniques.

The Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran is working on ?No Profit No Loss? basis and carrying out its activities by circulation of funds. The funds generated out of sale of Residential, Industrial, Commercial and Institutional plots are invested in acquisition of new areas, which enable HSVP to generate more plots for the public and more funds for the development works and new acquisitions.

The price fixed on ?No Profit No Loss? is charged from the plot holders with the stipulation that any enhanced compensation in the land cost awarded by the Courts under Section-18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 shall be recoverable in addition as and when such eventuality happens.

iii) Town Planning Wing

Town Planning Wing established at Head Quarter to look after the work of perspective planning for establishment of new Urban Estates. The Planning Wing is headed by a Chief Town Planner with supporting staff for town planning works and entrusted with the job of designing and issue of advertisements in the news papers regarding sale of sites in City Centers, Shopping Centers and Residential/Industrial Sectors in all the Urban Estates.

iv) Architecture Wing

Architectural Wing is headed by a Senior Architect with supporting staff and entrusted with the job of preparation of architectural controls and Architectural designs of all buildings constructed by HSVP. There is also one Land Scape Architect for designing parks, open spaces and gardens.

v) Legal Wing

HSVP is an organization which deals with the acquisition and disposal of developed land for various purposes and accordingly legal complications of various natures do arises which are being taken care of by the Legal Cell of the Authority which is headed by a Legal Remembrancer who is assisted by District Attorney, Deputy District Attrorneys, Additional District Attorneys and necessary supporting staff both at the Headquarter and field offices. The court cases are being monitored through web-based Court Case Tracking System (CCTS).

vi) Monitoring Wing

In order to monitor the progress of the developmental works done by the field offices on regular and timely basis a Monitoring Cell has been set up at the Head Office of the Authority which is headed by the Deputy Economic & Statistical Adviser and supporting staff. The work relating to the regular systematic inflow of performance data and its appraisal for future planning of urban development is being done by this cell.

vii) Enforcement Wing

This wing is headed by the Enforcement Officer at Head Quarter along with supporting staff. All the matters relating to the removing of encroachments are being dealt by this wing.

viii) Vigilance Wing.

This wing is headed by the Executive Engineer (Vigilance). All the matters relating to vigilance enquiries are dealt by this wing. The objective of this wing is to bring out transparency in the functioning of various wings and thus checking corrupt practices and also to ensure quality in development works.

ix) Establishment and Authority Wing

This wing is headed by the Secretary, HSVP. It deals with the establishment matters of the employees. All the Authority meetings are also conducted by the Secretary, HSVP.

x) Policy Wing

This wing is headed by the Secretary, HSVP. It deals with the establishment matters of the employees. All the Authority meetings are also conducted by the Secretary, HSVP.

xi) Land Acquisition Divisions

The acquisition of land for urban development is undertaken by five Land Acquisition Officers of the Urban Estates Department at the instance of Authority. The State Government on the request of the Authority acquires land under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and after taking possession of land, transfers it to the Authority on payment. The overall cost of acquisition and enhanced compensation if ordered by the competent court is paid by HSVP out of its own funds.

xii) Information Technology Wing (I.T.Wing)

The Information Technology Wing of HSVP was established in year 2006 and is headed by General Manager (IT). The main job is to automate the functioning of various wings of HSVP. Currently, various e-Governance initiatives have been undertaken by the Information Technology Wing to facilitate the internal efficiency of the Department and to provide quality services to the allottees, citizens and external agencies through website of HSVP. The web enabled application developed by TCS comprising of two modules viz; Plot and Property Management (PPM) and Financial Accounting System (FAS) have been implemented in all the Estate Offices of HSVP. Through which allottees having user ID and password are made enable to see the detail of their property anywhere, anytime and even the status of their application can be tracked on the net. HSVP is also in the process of establishing a state of the art dynamic portal with payment gateway interface.

GOVERNMENT LAND SCHEME

Haryana Government took a decision in the year 1987 to utilize the surplus Government lands for generating resources for State Exchequer. The Council of Ministers in the meeting held on 14.12.1987 had approved the general scheme of alienation of surplus Government land and properties which had been identified by the concerned Deputy Commissioners in consultation with the departments concerned in various towns of Haryana. These lands were then transferred to the Department of Town & Country Planning, Haryana for further alienation to HSVP for development and disposal. In all 15 schemes have been taken up with an area of 715.58 acres out of these 15 schemes, 9 schemes were commercial in nature, 4 residential-cum-commercial, 1 residential and 1 industrial scheme. The detail of Govt. Land Schemes is given below:-

Sr.No	Name of Urban Estate	Name of Scheme	Type of Scheme
1.	Ambala	Jail Land	Residential-cum-Commercial
2.	Gurgaon	(i) Agr.Farm land	Residential-cum-Commercial
		(ii) Jail Land	Commercial
		(iii) Old Judicial Complex	Commercial
3.	Hisar	(i) Mela Ground	Residential-cum-Commercial
		(ii) Old Distt.Court	Commercial
		(iii) Police Line	Residential-cum-Commercial
4.	Jind	(i) Diwan Khana	Commercial
		(ii) PWD.Store	Commercial
		(iii) B&R Shop	Commercial
5.	Karnal	(i) Mahila Ashram	Commercial
5.	Karnal	(ii) Old Tehsil Complex	Commercial
6.	Panipat	Industrial Plot No.3	Industrial
7.	Rohtak	Agriculture Farm Land	Residential
8.	Sirsa	Old Bus Stand	Commercial

Detail of Surplus Government Land Schemes

1.	Narwana	Old Tehsil Complex	Commercial
2.	Kurukshetra	Old Tehsil Complex	Commercial
3.	Faridabad	Rehabilitation Land Village Gaunchi, Scetor-56, 56A	Residential
4.	Sirsa	Old Jail Land	Recreation (Park)

Since disposal of plots under Government Land Schemes through auction has not worked well. It has been decided by the Government that balance residential plots under Government Land Scheme falling in low potential areas may be floated and the plots may be allotted through draw of lots.

MANDI TOWNSHIP AREAS

Consequent upon the winding up of the Colonization Department with effect from 30th September, 1983 vide Haryana Government Town & Country Planning Department?s notification No.18(43) 85-2TCP dated 19.9.1983, the Mandi Portion of 31 Mandi Townships established by the Colonisation Department were transferred to the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board and the remaining portion of the 29 Mandi Townships came to the share of Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran. As a sequel to the HSVP become a successor organisation to the Colonisation Department for all intents and purposes for Township areas.

The total land measuring 3516.439 acres (including vacant land measuring 1316.81 acres and 3422 vacant plots) of 29 Mandi Townships established by erstwhile Colonization Departmetn were taken over by HSVP on 11.9.1987. As a sequel to that HSVP became a successor organisation to the Colonization Department for all intents and purposes for Township Areas. The list of present Mandi Townships is given below:-

Sr.No.	Name of Mandi Townships	Sr.No.	Name of Mandi Townships
1.	Adampur	2.	Amin
3.	Ambala City	4.	Bhattu-Kalan
5.	Bhawani Khera	6.	Bhiwani
7.	Ballabhgarh	8.	Dabwali
9.	Dharsul Khan	10.	Ellenabad
11.	Fatehabad	12.	Gurgaon
13.	Guhla	14.	Hansi
15.	Hathin	16.	Hisar
17.	Jhajjar	18.	Kalayat
19.	Kaithal	20.	Kalanwali
21.	Kosli	22.	Narwana
23.	Narnaul	24.	Pehowa
25.	Pundri	26.	Papra
27.	Ratia	28.	Rewari
29.	Sirsa	30.	Tohana
31.	Tosham

URBAN ESTATES OF HSVP

Sr.No.	Name of Urban Estates	Name of Zones
1.	Faridabad	Faridabad
2.	Palwal	Faridabad
3.	Roz-Ka-Meo	Faridabad
4.	Hathin	Faridabad
1.	Gurgaon	Gurgaon
2.	Rewari	Gurgaon
3.	Dharuhera	Gurgaon
4.	Narnaul	Gurgaon
5.	Pataudi	Gurgaon
1.	Hisar	Hisar
2.	Sirsa	Hisar
3.	Hansi	Hisar
4.	Jind	Hisar
5.	Bhiwani	Hisar
6.	Fatehabad	Hisar
1.	Panchkula	Panchkula
2.	Ambala	Panchkula
3.	Naraingarh	Panchkula
4.	Karnal	Panchkula
5.	Kurukshetra	Panchkula
6.	Jagadhari / Yamuna Nagar	Panchkula
7.	Shahabad	Panchkula
8.	Kaithal	Panchkula
1.	Rohtak	Rohtak
2.	Bahadurgarh	Rohtak
3.	Panipat	Rohtak
4.	Gohana	Rohtak
5.	Jhajjar	Rohtak
6.	Sonepat	Rohtak
7.	Murthal	Rohtak