COIMBATORE: Though the State Government's new scheme for regularisation of house sites has brought joy to many unapproved layouts, more than 30 of these are going through agony now after being identified as Government lands.

The fate of about 3,000 house sites hangs in balance as the Coimbatore Corporation has refused to regularise them. The owners of the sites were shocked when they were told by Corporation authorities at the time of applying for regularisation that the lands belonged to the Government as they had been taken over under the Urban Land Ceiling Act. Land in excess of 75 cents under each owner had been taken over by the Government under the act. It was found recently that the sites in areas such as Karumariamman Layout, Thanneerthottam, Naryanaswamy Layout, Tiruvalluvar Nagar, Mookambigai Nagar, Teachers' Colony, State Bank Colony, Sivanlingapuram, Surya Nagar, Muthunagar and Vasantham Nagar came under this category. Sources in the Corporation said that the residents of these sites in Singanallur (East Zone of the Corporation) blamed it on promoters, accusing them of hiding the facts about the land status.

Questions remained over how the sites got registered and these might be raised at the Corporation Council's Emergency Meeting on Thursday, the sources said. Even as charges of the registration department not being informed clearly on the lands were being made, the Corporation said the issue would be referred to the Commissioner of Land Administration and the Government's direction on the regularisation of these layouts would be awaited.

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