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Friday, Jan 13, 2006

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Breather for unapproved plots outside city

Special Correspondent

Move will benefit over one lakh residing in 2,569 unapproved layouts, says Jayalalithaa

CHENNAI: The State Government on Thursday bowed to public demand and announced a scheme to regularise unapproved plots in urban areas outside the Chennai metropolitan area. This will help owners of houses constructed on such plots to register the property.

Till now this could not be done as an order issued in September 2000 by the Commercial Taxes department stated that houses constructed on unapproved layouts could not be conveyed or registered without a no-objection certificate from the local body concerned. Several pleas came from house owners seeking reversal of the order.

Guidelines

A statement from Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said the Government was now coming out with a scheme to regularise the plots with certain guidelines.

A plot subdivided into (up to) eight parts would not be considered as sub-divisions for registration purposes.

If the unapproved layouts had been created before 1980, no open space reservation charges would be levied for the present regularisation, though one-time development charges would be collected from the owners.

If the layout had been created after 1.1.1980, the plots could be regularised if the layout was abetting a main road or an approved layout or at least a 16-foot wide road, provided it did not fall under the coastal regulatory zone or in the direct flight landing path near airports.

Development charges

The owners should pay local body development charges — Rs. 20 per sq. m in Corporation areas, Rs.10 in municipality areas, Rs. 3 per sq. m in other urban areas.

Ten per cent of the layout should be provided for open space reserve area, or in case enough land was not available a certain amount of money would be collected.

After collecting at least 50 per cent of the development charges, the urban local body would begin to provide public amenities. Later it would collect the mandated deposits and charges for providing water and sewer connections; and arrange for providing sanctioned plans.

The guidelines for registering the property (which could not hitherto be done due to the Government order) would also be changed.

These moves would benefit over one lakh residents living in 2,569 unapproved layouts, the Chief Minister said, adding that it would also pave way for improving the urban amenities in these areas.

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