Civic body to seek GO for regularising unapproved layouts in new wards
Tiruchi Corporation will soon approach the government seeking an order
for the regularisation of unapproved residential layouts in the five
newly added wards in the city.
The five new wards were created following the merger of the Tiruverumbur
Town Panchayat and the Pappakurichi, Ellakudi, Keezha Kalkandarkottai
and Alathur panchayats, all in the eastern suburb of the city, with the
Corporation following delimitation some months back. The five new wards
are spread over the Golden Rock and Ariyamangalam zones in the city.
According to sources, there were over a hundred unapproved residential
layouts in the new wards with over 14,000 plots. Several houses have
already come up in the residential localities.
However, the Corporation has not been able to issue building plan
approvals for plots located in these unapproved layouts consequent to
the merger of these areas. Property tax revision too has not yet been
taken up in these areas after they were merged with the Corporation.
An official resolution on the subject would soon be tabled before the
Corporation Council seeking approval for approaching the government for
issuing an order to regularise the unapproved layouts and plots.
The Corporation has already sent a report to the Commissioner of
Municipal Administration stating that there were about 14,000 unapproved
plots in the give new wards. This apart, there were about 2,300
unapproved plots in the other 60 wards of the Corporation as well.
A few years back, it was pointed out, the government had issued orders
for regularising unapproved layouts as a one-time measure. Initially,
the Corporation was empowered to regularise the layouts after collecting
open space reservation charge, development and regularisation fees.
Subsequently, the scheme was simplified to regularise plots in the
layouts by collecting Rs.5 per square feet.
The Corporation would now seek either an extension of the previous order
or a fresh GO for regularising the about 16,300 unapproved layouts that
have been identified now, the sources said.
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