The Times of India           11.10.2010

HMDA lists LRS defaulters on its website

 HYDERABAD: To mount pressure on layout regularisation scheme (LRS) applicants to clear their dues, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has posted the names of nearly 7,200 defaulters on its website. It has also posted details of their outstanding dues on the website.

These defaulters have to pay amounts ranging between Rs 300 and Rs 13 lakh to the authority. For instance, an applicant, Y Krishna Kumari, from Patighanpur village on the outskirts of the city, has to pay Rs 13.74 lakh for getting her land regularised, while another applicant, Ratna Kumari, from Pedda Amberpet village has to clear just Rs 397 dues under the LRS.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been resorting to the exercise of putting up the names of property tax defaulters and their dues on its website to collect property tax from big defaulters who owe more than a lakh. Both HMDA and GHMC have put up the list of BPS and LRS applicants to apprise them of the status of their applications.

Taking a cue from the corporation, HMDA has recently put LRS defaulters' list on its website. While nearly 40,000 people have applied for LRS for regularising their plot or land in unauthorised layouts, only 30 to 40 per cent people have paid the entire penal amount and collected their proceedings. About 10,000 applicants have applied for their land regularisation with the development authority in the last two years and have not cleared their penal amount dues. Most of these applicants are from areas like Bachupally, Manchirevula, Jalpally, Jillelguda, Koheda, Abdullapur, Ameenpur, Adhibatla, Bowrampet and Ismailguda.

The state government has fixed December 31, 2010, as the deadline for LRS scheme. So far, the LRS fetched the Authority about Rs 65 crore, and it hopes to raise another Rs 50 crore by December.

Similarly, HMDA has to get dues of nearly Rs 55 crore from the building penalisation scheme (BPS) applicants. Of the 9,900 BPS applicants within HMDA jurisdiction, only 2,000 have paid their penal amount and collected regularisation proceedings from the authority.

Through BPS penal amount, HMDA has earned about Rs 30 crore, and expects another Rs 60 crore from the applicants. Most BPS defaulters are from Nizampet, Manikonda, Bachupally, Narsingi, Kompally, Boduppal, Peerzadiguda, Poppalguda and Manchirevula.

"HMDA will put up the names of BPS defaulters and their dues on the website soon as the due date for issuing regularisation proceedings will expire on November 15," HMDA director (planning) S Viswanath said.