JUDGMENT

Bhan, J.-Keeping in view the National Housing Policy and for rationalisation of rent laws to give incentive to the growth of the housing in general and rental housing, in particular, and the observation made by this Court in Prabhakaran Nair and others vs. State of Tamil Nadu and others [1987 (4) SCC 238] to the following effect:

"The laws of landlord and tenant must be made rational, humane, certain and capable of being quickly implemented. Those landlords who have having premises in their control should be induced and encouraged to part with available accommodation for limited periods on certain safeguards which will strictly ensure their recovery when wanted. Men with money should be given proper and meaningful incentives as in some European countries to build houses, tax holidays for new houses can be encouraged. The tenants should also be given protection and security and certain amount of reasonableness in the rent. Escalation of prices in the urban properties, land, materials and houses must be rationally checked. This country very vitally and very urgently requires a National Housing Policy if we want to prevent a major breakdown of law and order and gradual disillus