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Last minute bid to get sites regularised

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Extend last date from December 31, Mayor tells Stalin

SPECIAL CAMP: Owners of sites in unapproved layouts queue up at the North Zone office of the Coimbatore Corporation on Thursday to apply for regularisation. - PHOTO: S. SIVA SARAVANAN

COIMBATORE: The zonal offices of the Coimbatore Corporation are witnessing a last-minute bid by people to have their sites in unapproved layouts regularised under the Government's scheme introduced before the local body elections.

The deadline for applying for regularisation is December 31.

Special camps

On the heels of the West Zone announcing a special camp for 18 wards in its limits, the North Zone office will also hold a special camp at C.M. Mandapam on December 29 and 30 to enable people of Wards 1, 2, 3, 17, 18, 29 to 33 and 65 to 72.

North Zone chairman C. Padmanabhan said on Thursday that the camp was aimed at enabling more people to apply than those whose cases could be dealt with in the normal process.

Three counters for accepting applications and scrutinising them and two for issuing regularisation orders would be set up at the camp, he said.

Extend deadline

Mayor R. Venkatachalam has appealed to the Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin to extend the deadline for regularisation of sites in unapproved layouts by three months.

In a letter faxed to the Minister, the Mayor has also requested him to consider providing concession to those sites that could not be regularised owing to the Land Ceiling Act.

Of the 28,000 sites in 565 unapproved layouts, only around 22,000 had been regularised.

Exemption

The remaining 6,000 sites could not be regularised owing to various reasons, including the lack of proper documents, misplacing of receipts got on payment of the regularisation fee and problems arising out of the Act.

The Mayor said in the letter that as these were the reasons that held up regularisation of these sites, the deadline should be extended for the benefit of the owners of these sites.

Exemption from the Act should be given to the sites identified as those coming under it, as their owners were even below the middle-income group.

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