The Hindu 30.12.2010
Commercial building sealed in Tirupur
Staff Reporter
The structure
had come up without
plan approval
Tirupur: Local Planning Authority (LPA) officials sealed a
five-storied commercial building that had come up without obtaining plan
approval, and served notices on five other commercial structures under
construction, in the city on Wednesday.
The LPA team under its Assistant Director C. Jeevanantham sealed the
multi-storied building situated near the Collectorate on
Tirupur-Palladam Road amid police security.
Mr. Jeevanantham told The Hindu that the owner of the building did
not obtain the plan approval prior to the construction of the building
and hence, it was sealed.
The building is situated a few metres away from the office of the LPA.
Of the five commercial buildings to which notices had been served,
three were in Khaderpet area adjacent to the Tirupur Railway Station and
two on the Tirupur-Avinashi Road.
Forbidden
“The owners of these buildings are forbidden from continuing the
construction work until they obtain the plan approval from the
authorities concerned within the mandatory 30-day period,” Mr.
Jeevanantham said.
Support
LPA sources said that the Corporation officials did not extend
adequate support to the LPA officials during the drive in the city.
Eyewash
Nallur Consumers Welfare Association president N. Shanmugasundaram,
who had been crusading against the illegal constructions, termed the
sealing of one building and issuing notices on five others as ‘eyewash’.
He said that these actions in bits and pieces were just “aimed at fooling the honest tax-paying public”.
“If the authorities concerned had been really upright all these
years, then thousands of edifices would not have come up in the city
illegally with many of them standing tall for decades,” he added.