The Hindu 23.04.2010
GHMC warns pending applicants for BPS
Special Correspondent
HYDERABAD: The GHMC is warning pending applicants for the Building Penalisation Scheme (BPS) with a 25 per cent hike in property tax and also the threat of cutting power, water and sewerage connections if they do not get them cleared.
Using all the regulatory powers it has, the Municipal Corporation in the detailed show cause notices being issued has stated that other than demolition of the unauthorised construction or the deviated portion, the applicants are told that a separate fee of 10 per cent of the total building and land will be levied if these notices too are ignored. Sealing the premises is also another option. All the 18 Deputy Municipal Commissioners (DMCs) concerned have been empowered to issue the final notices directing applicants to pay the penal amounts or any of the documents not yet submitted like the copy of the old sanctioned plan, structural stability, copy of registered ownership documents, latest property tax receipts and photograph of the building have to be filed. In case of the multi-storied building, no objection certificates from the Fire Services Department and Airport Authority of India (AAI) also have to be filed. Applicants have seven days to comply with the notices from the date of when they are issued after which penal action will follow, said Additional Commissioner (Planning & Projects) K. Dhanunjaya Reddy. The DMCs have been given a free hand to issue the notices either through post, courier or by hand. Having cleared little more than 90,000 BPS applications, GHMC is still saddled with at least 70,000 which can be processed.
