The Hindu 11.06.2010
‘Builders will be blacklisted for violations'
Special Correspondent
COIMBATORE: Builders deviating from the approved plans and constructing unauthorised structures will be blacklisted, Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra said on Thursday. The stern warning came in the wake of the demolition of such structures in an apartment under construction at Saibaba Colony in the city on Wednesday.
“To violate is the rule now. But, we will teach the violators a lesson,” the Commissioner said.
“When approval for the building plan is applied for, we get an undertaking on a stamp paper f'rom the applicants that they will not deviate from the approved plan and construct any unauthorised/unapproved structure,” the Commissioner explained. “Yet, many still deviate from the plan. But, we will tackle this firmly.”
What the builders did not understand was that the loss was ultimately for them. They would lose all the money they had put into the construction when the Corporation demolished the unauthorised structures, Mr. Mishra pointed out.
When complaints of lack of periodic inspection of the construction were pointed out, the Commissioner said the civic body's engineers carried it out whenever the pressure of routine work eased. But, this was taken advantage of by the builders.
Welcoming the announcement that builders would be blacklisted, leader of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in the Council P. Rajkumar said only stern measures would end violations.
