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GMC to net Rs 10 cr. in compulsory BPS

Ramesh Susarla

GUNTUR: The Penalisation scheme into the Guntur Municipal Corporation estimates an income of Rs.10 crores from the Compulsory Building Regulation and Penalisation Scheme being implemented in the city in which an estimated 20,400 building units of all categories had deviations.

About 20,000 independent houses/properties, 100 commercial complexes, and 300 apartment complexes/flats with minor or major deviations have been identified by the Town Planning wing of the GMC, which fall in the ambit of the recently amended Municipal Administration Act through an Ordinance No.15 of 2007.

City Planner Chakrapani told The Hindu that Government Order 901 of December 31, 2007 was replaced by the Ordinance to be called A.P. Regulation and Penalisation of Unauthorised Constructions, Buildings Constructed in Deviation and under it every owner had to compulsorily disclose the deviation and apply in prescribed form by paying the fee. The last date for disclosure has been fixed as February 28 for the constructions completed and those projects/houses now under construction but deviated from the plan approvals given prior to December 15, had to immediately apply within 15 days for regularisation or face a stiff penalty.

Property in Government, municipal lands, wakf or endowment property, water bodies, and open spaces of the authorised layouts would not be regularized under any condition, he emphasized. Those buildings above 18 meters or above cellar+5 floors (with a penthouse) would be required to take the permission of the Fire Department within three months of applying for building regularisation.

The unauthorised constructions in the cellar would not be regularized under any condition, he said. Slab rate for penalty for flats below 1,000 sq.ft. of deviation was Rs.15,000, Rs.20,000 for those above 1,000 Sq.Ft. If the deviation was more than 30 per cent penalty would be Rs.15,000 plus Rs.75 per sq.ft.

For commercial buildings penalty was Rs.150 per sq.ft. in buildings below 10 mts. Rs.300 per sq.ft. for above 15 mts. and for deviations above 30 per cent penalty would be Rs.400 per sq.ft.

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