CHENNAI : Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) will ease the process of acquiring building completion certificates that effectively came to a standstill after a High Court order directed the Authority to modify or demolish buildings constructed after 1999 in violation of development control rules (DCR).

`Interim measure'

Vice Chairman R. Santhanam said that an "interim measure" was adopted to alleviate hardship to public at the fourth meeting of the high court-appointed monitoring committee on Tuesday.

"Nearly 100 buildings in Chennai Metropolitan Agencies are awaiting completion certificates from the CMDA. Only after receiving it they can get water and electricity connections. Within the next two weeks, officials from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, traffic police, Chennai Corporation and other local bodies will inspect the buildings to ensure that they have been constructed as per the DCR," Mr. Santhanam told The Hindu .

Based on the compliance reports, the CMDA would issue completion certificates so owners could go ahead and get water and electricity connections.

Mr. Santhanam said the committee also discussed and finalised a detailed `action taken report' (ATR) as directed by the High Court.

"It will be filed before the HC next week," he added.

The report will consist of details on all the four regularisation schemes (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) as well as applications from builders of multi-storeyed commercial buildings seeking to regularise violations of DCR.

Violators

The report will also have details on what action will be taken against violators as decided in the course of the monitoring committee meetings in the last two months. Officials and committee members refused to comment on the details. In the last meeting held on January 10, the monitoring committee had asked the CMDA to furnish more data regarding 139 multi-storeyed commercial buildings that were constructed before 1999 and had applied for regularisation.

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