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SCB offers extra FSI to those hit by road-widening

Special Correspondent

The benefit may be 33 to 75 per cent

HYDERABAD: The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) will be offering extra Floor Space Index (FSI) and Transfer of Developmental Rights (TDR) to property owners affected in its ambitious road widening plan.

Extra FSI would depend on the plot area and will benefit small landowners and ‘patta’ land holders more, explained Chief Executive Officer V. Premchand on Friday after the Board meeting. FSI benefit could be between 33 per cent and even 75 per cent in deserving cases.

Conceptual plans for widening seven roads up to 100 ft width were cleared for stretches of Hanuman Temple-Tadbund Circle, Mahendra Hills – Bison Gate, Secunderabad Club-Safilguda Railway Crossing, Tirumalgiri junction-Bapujinagar, Tadbund- Bapujinagar, Diamond Point-Karkhana and MES Pump house-Bowenpally Market.

Fresh building permissions on these roads will be given if 30 feet is left for setbacks. Work is likely to begin during the current financial year and Rs. 20 crore was allotted. In tune with the project, SCB had also approved the draft building by-laws.

Officially apartments would be permitted till three floors and more than two dwellings on a plot. Mortgage of one floor will be a must for any construction above ground floor. Clear cut rules for setbacks, FSI, cellars, etc., have been defined in them including mandatory parking spaces.

Mr. Premchand said the draft by-laws would be submitted to New Delhi and a gazette notification could follow in two months time after giving a month for receiving objections and suggestions from citizens.

The CEO said that contracts for maintenance and other works might be entrusted to GHMC and MES if there was no proper response to the tender notification to be issued again. These agencies will get 2.5 per cent more than the tender price as bonus if works are entrusted to them. The threat is being held out as response to its previous tender notification was very poor.

“We will give local contractors one more chance and will desist from inviting any more tenders during the financial year,” he asserted.

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