The Hindu 30.04.2013
Government clamps down on property registrations
Special Correspondent
57 gram panchayats abutting HMDA identified.
The government has identified as many as 57 gram
panchayats abutting the HMDA area in Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda, Mahabubnagar
and Medak districts to impose restrictions on property registrations.
A
proposal to this effect by the HMDA and Greater Hyderabad Municipal
Corporation (GHMC) was approved by Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy
while reviewing Hyderabad-related issues here on Monday.
It
was mooted in light of the need to expand HMDA limits to meet future
requirements following the influx of people to the city from districts. A
top official later said that a draft bill would be prepared to amend
the some legislations to impose the registration restrictions.
As
per another decision, water and electricity connections will be
permitted only in case of approved plans and layouts in GHMC area to
present unauthorised constructions.
The meeting,
which was attended by Municipal Administration Minister M. Maheedhar
Reddy, department’s principal secretary B. Sam Bob, GHMC commissioner
M.T. Krishna Babu and HMDA commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad, decided to
set up a Town Planning Tribunal to deal with litigation over illegal
constructions.
Hyderabad Collector Murtaza Rizvi,
Ranga Reddy Collector Vani Prasad and city police commissioner Anurag
Sharma and Hyderabad metro Rail Limited MD N.V.S. Reddy and others were
present.
The Chief Minister noted that the 635 sq km
of the GHMC areas has 7.75 million population as per the 2011 Census.
One-fourth of the buildings in the city were unauthorised while another
one-fourth suffer from major deviations in respect to floors and
setbacks. Unauthorised constructions and deviations are mostly found
with respect to plots below 200-500 sq metres.
Mr.
Kiran Kumar Reddy wanted steps to improve cleaning work all over the
city, and make the Expressway and the neighbourhood of cancer and other
government hospitals neat. He sought installation of alert and sensor
cameras such as in Delhi airport besides CC cameras on city roads at the
earliest.
Officials told him that
pedestrian-friendly footpaths were being provided in the city. The Chief
Minister urged speeding of the implementation of strategies prepared
for integrated traffic management, construction of multi-level parking
slots, integrated bus terminal at Miyapur with logistics hubs at
Batasingaram, Hayatnagar, Mangalampalli to divert traffic from city
roads.
