The Hindu 13.07.2010
Ceiling for inspection-free clearance of buildings up
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: The government has enhanced the ceiling for inspection-free clearance of building registration documents.
The Registration Department will not insist on inspection of the sites in areas under the jurisdiction of village panchayats and town panchayats, which comprise land and buildings if the value, quoted by applicants in their documents, is less than Rs.1 lakh.
In the case of areas under municipal corporations and municipalities, the revised ceiling will be up to Rs.2 lakh, according to a release issued by R. Sivakumar, Inspector-General of Registration, on Monday.
Till now, the ceiling was Rs.50,000, regardless of the category of area. Making the policy announcement in the Assembly during the Budget session, Tourism and Registration Minister N. Suresh Rajan had said that that the ceiling was last fixed in 2003.
The release stated that for building permits issued by local bodies and the Directorate of Town and Country Planning, inspection had been exempted, irrespective of the value of buildings.
A government order was issued on June 16. The move would enable the lower-strata of society and the middle class to secure their documents quickly at the time of registration of the property.
