The Hindu 17.01.2010
Layout Regularisation Scheme date extended
Staff Reporter
Intimation letters issued to 10,000 applicants
HYDERABAD: The last date for the Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS) offering regularisation of plot/layout has been extended till March 31. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) in a statement informed that the facility could be availed by submitting applications accordingly.
Under the scheme, the HMDA has already issued intimation letters to about 10,000 applicants informing them about the approval of their request and asking them to pay the balance penal amount within the stipulated period. With many applicants not having remitted the balance penal amount, the HMDA has put their details on the notice boards at its offices and also on its website ‘ www.hmda.gov.in’. For the old cases where HMDA has already sent acceptance letters to the request of the applicants, the payment date has been extended up to January 31,failing which the respective files would be closed and the initial penal amount would be forfeited, the statement added.