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Ceiling for inspection-free clearance of buildings up

Tuesday, 13 July 2010 08:01 administrator
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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.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 July 2010 08:09
 

Uniform rules for special buildings

Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:00 administrator
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The New Indian Express      17.06.2010

Uniform rules for special buildings

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government will implement the uniform guidelines relating to special buildings, multi-storeyed buildings, group developments, layouts and sub-divisions in nine planning areas and two suburban areas.

The places include Tiruchy, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Thoothkudi, Salem, Erode, Coimbatore, Tirupur, Vellore and suburban areas like Gummidipondi, Chengalpattu and Mamallapuram falling in Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts.

The decision to implement uniform development regulations in these planning areas comes in the wake of Chief Secretary KS Sripathi emphasizing the need for issuing uniform guidelines for rural areas that abut urban areas.

Orders have already been issued to implement the provisions of Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority’s (CMDA) First Master Plan in planning areas like Tiruchy, Salem and Coimbatore under the purview of director of town and country planning.

“The development regulations framed by Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority are scientifically driven and suit the present trend of developments and duly meet other elements in the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning,” a government press release said.

On the applicability of the guidelines to Vellore and Tirupur, the State government said it would permit institutions like Christian Medical College, Vellore to expand infrastructure to meet the needs of sick people.The regulations include provisions for areas where multi-storeyed buildings are permissible and correlating the height of multi-storeyed buildings with the width of the abutting road. If a site that is to be developed is bigger than 10,000 sq metres, 10 per cent of the area must be earmarked for providing houses for lower income groups and economically weaker sections.

The government has constituted an empowered committee consisting of secretary, housing and development as chairman, secretary municipal administration and water supply department and member secretary of the CMDA as members, and director of Town and Country Planning as convenor to look into the ‘demonstrable hardships’ and relax the planning parameters, the press release stated.

Last Updated on Friday, 18 June 2010 10:55
 

Corporation puts up rainwater harvesting structure

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 05:14 administrator
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The Hindu      15.06.2010

Corporation puts up rainwater harvesting structure

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Will end stagnation on road and inundation of nearby houses: Mayor

Photo: K. Ananthan.

Twin objective:Mayor R. Venkatachalam explains the features of a rainwater harvesting structure built by the Coimbatore Corporation at Chinthamani Nagar in ward no:62 . —

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation has put up a rainwater harvesting structure measuring around 200 sq.ft. at Chinthamani Nagar of Ward 62, with the twin objective of recharging the aquifer and also solving a 20-year problem of water stagnation.

The civic body has used a reserved site, north of NSR Road, to put up the structure 15 ft below the road level. “The structure runs another 15 ft deep. Siruthuli (a public initiative for water resources conservation) has sunk a 280-ft deep bore well,” Mayor R. Venkatachalam said on Monday.

Ward councillor R. Gayathri said: “Once operational, the new structure will solve the problem of stagnation of rain water at this spot. A faulty gradient from the main road and another from a street led to rain water flowing towards the site and stagnating in front of a few houses,” she explained.

The councillor said people residing in a house near the reserved site used to move out of the place during heavy rain as water entered the compound.

Pointing at a channel at the entrance of the site, the Mayor said rain water would flow through this into the rainwater harvesting structure. The Rs.7-lakh project also consisted of landscaping around the core water harvesting structure.

The area for landscaping was being prepared on all four sides of the harvest pit. Pipes had been provided here also to take the rain water seeping into the soil to the harvest spot. Slopes had been formed further down the landscape section so that rain water could flow to the harvest area. The outer ring of the facility was being provided with a walkers' track measuring four feet wide. A barricade and a gate would separate the track from the landscape and the harvest structure.

A private party would take up maintenance of the landscaped area and the track and also the task of providing security. “The public can use only the walkers' track,” the Mayor said.

The barricades would have boards with slogans that called upon the public to shun plastic bags and save rain water.

“There will be an advice to the people that they should pay Property Tax and drinking water charges promptly as only this revenue will help the Corporation provide various facilities, including good rain water harvesting structures,” Mr. Venkatachalam said.

The Mayor explained that the harvest structure could absorb 6,000 cubic ft of water. “We want to complete the work before the South West Monsoon turns vigorous,” he said.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 05:16
 
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