Delhi has 1,731 unauthorized colonies, home to “more than 40 lakh people.” In October 2019 the Union Cabinet approved a proposal “to confer or recognise the rights of ownership or transfer or mortgage of property” in them. By July 16, 2024, 23,811 people had received ownership rights under the scheme, PM-UDAY.
In Karnataka a scheme called Akrama-Sakrama lets owners pay to regularize building violations. “It involves paying a one-time penalty to regularise deviations of up to 50% in residential buildings,” The News Minute reported. The Supreme Court stayed the scheme in January 2017.