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Loading ...Officials are assuring that the Compulsory Disclosure Scheme (CDS) to regularise unauthorised buildings, constructions has been simplified to enable citizens pay the penalties without much ado, says V. Geetanath.
After months of speculation and discussion, the Compulsory Disclosure Scheme (CDS) to regularise unauthorised buildings, constructions in violation of the sanctioned plan and illegal layouts in urban areas has arrived.
Regularisation will take place after payment of revamped, heavy penalties. In two days, all municipal offices will be selling application forms along with a detailed handbook with guidelines for a price of Rs. 25. It can also be downloaded from websit es like www.ghmc.gov.in.
Officials are assuring that the entire procedure has been simplified to enable citizens to pay the penalties without much ado. “We have rationalised rates and regulations to the maximum extent possible. The scrutiny work has been decentralised to dispose off applications every day, pending field inspections in relevant cases. We may even issue occupancy certificate the same day for some,” avers GHMC Additional Commissioner (Planning & Projects) K. Dhananjaya Reddy.
Penal rates increased
Mr. Reddy has been a key member of the committee that drafted the scheme and also in the amendments required for the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act. “We have consciously upped the penal rates to act as a deterrent. If violators do not utilise this one-off opportunity, they have to be prepared to face enforcement measures including demolitions,” asserts Mr. Reddy.
Applications can be filed over the next two months while processing of the files is to take up to six months so that there is sufficient time for structures of more than 18 metres high for residential buildings (more than five floors) and 15 metres for commercial complexes to obtain clearances from the Fire Services and Airports Authority of India (AAI) as also structural safety certificates for both.
CDS will be applicable for buildings constructed between January 1, 1985 and December 15, 2007. Structures built before 1985 too are eligible. While the penal rates for Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam are the same (see boxes below), they are slightly lower in other urban areas. It will be flat rates for all apartments divided into two categories.
Refund issue
However, owners will have to pay more if the floor has no permission. Similarly, rates will increase if buildings have more than 30 per cent deviation from the sanctioned plan. Any applicant not satisfied with the final clearance can appeal to an appellate committee to be constituted soon. Any owner, registered GPA holder or developer can apply.
Penal charges will have to be paid in full and 10 per cent of it will be refunded if the case is rejected. Information and reception counters will be opened in all municipal offices to assist citizens, assure officials. The help of any registered architect or licensed technical personnel can be taken to fill in the forms.
The municipal corporations will inspect 10 per cent of residential buildings of ground plus two floors, 50 per cent of buildings up to four floors and all buildings higher than these before clearing them for regularisation. For commercial complexes, scrutiny will be for 10 per cent of G+1, 25 per cent till G+3, and 50 per cent up to G+ 4 and all high rises.
SOURCES:
The Hindu
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