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`Some of the unapproved sites can be regularised'

Special Correspondent

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation said on Friday that residential sites registered between August 3, 1976 and December 31, 1994 can be regularised even though they were categorised as surplus lands of the Government under the Tamil Nadu Urban Land Ceiling Act of 1978.

Sites measuring up to one-and-a-half grounds (one ground is 2400 sq.ft.) could apply for regularisation immediately under the ongoing process, the Corporation Commissioner, P. Muthuveeran, told presspersons on Friday.

Issue raised

Regularisation of 43 layouts at Singanallur in the East Zone of the Corporation was put on hold as the lands were found to be surplus Government lands acquired under the Act. The issue was raised in the Corporation Council's Urgent Meeting on August 17.

The Corporation had sought the Government's view and a letter from the Commissioner of Municipal Administration said that sites registered during the mentioned period could be cleared for regularisation on payment of a fee 50 times the zonal guideline value. In Coimbatore city, the fee for 2400 sq.ft. was Rs. 64,343.

They should apply for clearance to the Assistant Commissioner in the Survey Department at the Collectorate here. The site owner should produce the registration deed.

Once the clearance was given, the sites could be regularised on paying the fee of Rs. 5 a sq.ft to the Corporation. "There are 253 acres of such surplus lands and 93 unapproved layouts with 3,036 individual sites were spread across these," the Commissioner said.

"While most of the sites will benefit from this procedure, others who purchased after December 1994 will have to approach the Commissioner of Land Reforms through the Collector for exemption from the Act."

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