PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad New Township Development Authority (PCNTDA) has received around 200 suggestions and objections from citizens on its proposal to allow 2.5 Floor Space Index (FSI) to housing projects for poor people. The PCNTDA wants the proposal to be included in the development control rules.Yogesh Mhase, chief executive officer of the development authority, said, "We received around 200 suggestions and objections to our proposal.Around 100 people attended a hearing on the matter held on Thursday.

The views expressed by the citizens and the administration's opinion will be tabled before the PCNTDA executive committee for its approval. The proposal will then be sent to the state government." Mhase said the authority would study the suggestions and objections and give its opinion on them.Terming the proposal as illegal, Shiv Sena corporator Seema Savale raised 14 objections.

She said that the authority published an advertisement in newspapers in December 2010.She said she has documentary proof showing that the state government's resolution to grant 2.5 FSI is not applicable to the PCNTDA.She alleged that the former CEO of the PCNTDA had approved the building permission for the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation's housing project for poor people with 2.5 FSI on November 16, 2009. At that time there was no such provision for 2.5 FSI in its development control rules, she said.