It is now or never
After months of speculation and discussion, the Scheme 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 websites 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.
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