The Hindu : Go `fast track', obtain building permission

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Jan 14, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Go `fast track', obtain building permission

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JAN. 13. The Standing Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) has unanimously resolved to accord building permission within three days of submission of application upon voluntary payment of a `fast track fee' that is 10 per cent more than the regular fee.

At its meeting on Tuesday, the panel, under the chairmanship of Haroon Khan, observed that the general public was facing lot of inconvenience due to abnormal delays in according building permission. The corporation was also facing a financial loss due to these delays, the committee felt.

It, however, warned that the permission would be cancelled if there were any deviations from the sanctioned plan. The licence of the surveyor would also be cancelled if he was found to be preparing plans in deviation to the building bylaws and rules.

In another significant resolution, the committee resolved not to allow the transfer of Sanjeevaiah Park to the Buddha Poornima Project Authority and advised the MCH Commissioner not to dispose any movable or immovable property of the corporation without prior sanction.

The matter was passed onto the MCH general body for consideration. The State Government had earlier passed an order directing the MCH Commissioner to hand over the park along with the buildings in it to the Buddha Poornima Project Authority for a year to develop tourism.

But, based on the representation made by the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority's Vice-Chairman seeking the transfer of park on a permanent basis to "achieve effective planning and control as the entire area surrounding the park is the development zone," the Government allotted the park to the Buddha Poornima Project Authority.

In a separate resolution, the committee recommend the general body and the State Government to allow the Ziaguda, Amberpet and new Bhoiguda slaughterhouses to continue to work at their existing places after "modernising, improving and erecting effluent treatment plants" to control all types of pollution.

The committee wanted butcher organisations to be allowed to bear 50 per cent of the expenditure on the modernisation cost.

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