A Googlw Earth shot of Sangam Vihar, one of the densest unauthorised colonies which is spread over 5sqkm and houses over a million residents - a population equal to Chandigarh. The Delhi government has announced it will regularise 1,797 unauthorised colonies in the city. According to the court-appointed committee's report, most of the unauthorised colonies up for regularising are built on government land that was encroached upon. “It is understood that sewer lines can be laid down in not more than 30 colonies a year. Besides the backlog of these 85 colonies, sewer lines have to be laid in additional 1,797 colonies earmarked to be regularised.

Source: The Telegraph July 23, 2019 20:03 UTC