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Corporation non-committal on buildings

Special Correspondent

Makes it clear that new regularisation scheme is only for plots

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is non-committal on the fate of buildings in the unapproved layouts that are now on way to getting regularised under the new scheme.

Confused

Councillors left the meeting of the Corporation Council on Monday still confused over what would be done with the buildings.

The Mayor In-Charge, K. Raghupathy, read out a resolution on behalf of the Council, thanking the Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, and the Minister for Local Administration, M.K. Stalin, for the scheme.

The members wanted to thank them for a scheme that sought to provide basic amenities at a very low fee for approval of the layouts.

At this point, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam councillor, Singai S. Balan, sought a clarification whether the scheme was for only the house sites or for the buildings also.

If this was only for the plots, what happens to the buildings and when would they be regularised, he asked.

Mr. Balan's question was in continuation of those from other councillors at the meeting on Friday on whether building owners should continue to pay the penalty for unauthorised structures even as their layouts would get approved. Joining Mr. Balan, a few other councillors asked whether the Corporation had any information of another scheme being drafted for the regularisation of the buildings.

Clarifications

That the Corporation was forced to be non-committal on the buildings was evident when Mr. Raghupathy sought some clarifications from town planning officials but got no clear reply. The Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam councillor M. Krishnaswamy said after the meeting that officials were not willing to commit on the buildings, probably because something was being worked out for regularising them.

Reserved sites

Persistent questions from some councillors on the buildings seemed to reveal their fear of another scheme that might not have a fee as low as the one for the plots. And, they also regretted that it was still not clear whether those who paid the charges earlier would have even their plots regularised.

Mr. Balan called upon Mr. Raghupathy to identify all the reserved sites in the city, including the unapproved layouts, and fence them. "We have to protect the reserved sites we have."

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