Hyderabad, April 20: The Building Penalisation Scheme (BPS) is crawling as owners of thousands of unauthorised buildings in the city are showing reluctance to pay the remaining penalisation charges to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and get the structures regularised.

The civic body seems to have lost its “weight” as its demolition threat too has failed to make the owners pay the charges.

Nearly 50,000 BPS applicants are not coming forward to complete the regularisation process. What’s more, there are another 35,000 applications which lack proper documentation.

The GHMC chief city planner, Mr G.V. Raghu, confirmed that, of the total 2.03 lakh applications received under the BPS, only 94,000 had been cleared till date.

“We have been issuing notices to applicants. The last date for clearance of BPS applications is June 30. Now, we are telling the applicants that a special demolition drive would be taken up after June 30 besides imposing heavy penalties on unauthorised structures,” he said.

It may be mentioned that the corporation has set itself a target of collecting at least Rs 400 crore by disposing off the pending BPS applications. Now, the GHMC town planning officials are going to the door steps of the BPS applicants and asking them to pay penalisation charges for disposal of their applications.