Deccan Chronicle 03.01.2011
GHMC won’t raze illegal buildings
January 3rd, 2011
an. 2: The
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation may well decide not to bulldoze
unauthorised buildings that have not been ‘regularised’ under the
Building Penalisation Sch-eme that ended on December 31, 2010.
Instead, the civic body wants to fill its empty coffers by
levying heavy penalties on the buildings that are illegal or have
flouted building rules. It thus hopes to raise more than Rs 50 crore on
over 30,000 applications that are pending under the BPS.
Another 40,000 applications were deemed ineligible for the
BPS by GHMC officials as the buildings had come up within the Full Tank
levels of water bodies, or on Wakf, endowment, government, ceiling,
assigned or notary lands.
Those who have already availed of the BPS and got their
properties regularised, have objected to the GHMC’s reluctance to
demolish the properties. They say that if the properties are not
demolished, the 1.32 lakh applicants who paid in all Rs 677 crore
towards penalisation char-ges and got their buildings regularised within
the stipulated time, will feel cheated. Besides, if the properties are
not demolished, it will send a wrong message and construction of
unauthorised buildings will increase.
