( 1 ) THIS WRIT PETITION WHICH IS IN THE NATURE OF PUBLIC INTEREST litigation RAISES A QUESTION OF FAR REACHING CONSEQUENCES AND HAS WIDE RAMIFICATIONS. THE DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY WHICH IS A CREATURE OF DELHI DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1957 ACQUIRED THE LAND IN QUESTION WHICH WAS AGRICULTURAL LAND BEING IN J-ZONE allegedly FOR DEVELOPMENT. IT STANDS ADMITTED THAT NO APPROVAL OF THE CENTRAL government FOR USE OF THE LAND IN TERMS OF SECTION 11a OF THE SAID ACT HAS BEEN obtained.

( 2 ) ADMITTEDLY SINCE THE DATE OF ACQUISITION TILL 1999 THE FIRST RESPONDENT HEREIN did NOT TAKE ANY STEP TO MOVE the CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FOR TAKING ANY ACTION IN TERMS of SECTION 11a OF THE ACT. FOR THREE YEARS THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ALSO DID NOT TAKE any STEPS PURSUANT TO OR IN FURTHERANCE OF THE APPLICATION FILED BY THE FIRST respondent HEREIN FOR CHANGE IN THE LAND USER. IN THE MEANTIME, PURPORTED TO BE ON the GROUND OF PROTECTING THE LANDIN QUESTION FROM FURTHER ENCROACHMENT AS ALSO FOR other CO-LATERAL PURPOSES A MASS HOUSING PROJECT IN VASANT KUNJ FOR 416 HIG FOR group I HAD BEEN UNDERTAKEN. PURSUANT TO OR IN FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID SCHEME, A notice INVITING TENDERS HAD BEEN ISSUED AND A