The Hindu 30.01.2014
Corporation wants status quo on panchayat land
The city Corporation has requested the Town Planning
Department to maintain the status quo on land coming under panchayats
that were recently added to the city Corporation area until the
publication of the final master plan.
At a press
conference here on Wednesday, Corporation Mayor K. Chandrika said that
applying the draft master plan in these panchayats had adversely
affected the common people who wanted to build small houses.
“When
the draft master plan was published, we had requested the Town Planning
Department to publish a version in Malayalam so that everyone could
understand it. But they just published a shortened version of it in 10
pages without the survey numbers or other details,” she said.
Ms.
Chandrika said areas such as Kattayikkonam and Mangottukonam were now
marked for public institutions, Attipra and Kallingal were marked as
strategic zones, and Kadakampally and Ulloor as tourism zones in the
draft plan.
The draft master plan had been made
applicable in all of these areas. Consequently, all construction
activities in these areas had been frozen, she said.
