| The council, inaugurated last week by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, will be focusing primarily on licensing brokers. A draft will be circulated among the ministries concerned. |
| The body will make it mandatory for the brokers to go through a 36-hour training programme and should be at least 18 years old with the higher secondary degree. Also, they would have to get themselves registered with a recognised body, a council official said. |
| The council would be working towards a registration cell and branding norms. "There is an urgent need for setting up registration bodies for developers, both at the national and state levels; so we will work out guidelines for incorporating a proper registration council," said T C Goyal, council president and DLF Universal managing director. |
| The organisation would be also working for the rehabilitation of slum-dwellers, and to facilitate this the Delhi government said it was open to the idea of an in-site rehabilitation of slum-dwellers in the capital, on the lines of the Mumbai slum re-settlement model. It called for private participation to adapt the model to Delhi's needs. |
| The Mumbai model entails constructing small apartments for jhuggi dwellers in one part of the area, while the remaining part is developed commercially to cross-subsidise further development. |
| On the issue of jhuggis and unauthorised colonies mushrooming in the capital, Dikshit said one of the main reasons for it was that residential colonies came up in a thoughtless manner. |
| Goyal proposed that the government allot land of 5""50 acres to the private sector for housing. It would act as a disincentive to unauthorised construction, he said. |
| Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Vice-Chairman Madhukar Gupta said a DDA team visited Mumbai to study the slum development programme, adding that a few sites have "tentatively" been identified to carry out similar projects. |
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