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Provisional impact charges for builders

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IN DISCUSSION: Information Minister Parithi Illamvazhuthi with Chief Secretary L.K. Tripathy at a meeting in Chennai on Thursday.

CHENNAI: Builders in Corporations across the State can provisionally pay Rs.100 per square metre as infrastructure impact charges while giving an undertaking that they will pay any further increase of the charge, according to a decision taken at a meeting here on Thursday.

Information Minister and Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) chairman Parithi Illamvazhuthi and Chief Secretary L.K. Tripathy held the discussions with builders from the city and its suburbs.

Government officials said the discussions would be reported to the Chief Minister and a final decision taken on the charges later. The Chief Secretary had recommended that the charges be made more lenient for Corporations other than Chennai, participants of the meeting said.

Protest against GO

Property developers had protested against a government order issued last year that set the charge at Rs.1,000 per square metre for multi-storeyed buildings. The charge was also being demanded for Special Buildings, including residential development of ground floor plus three floors over the last three months, builders alleged.

Planning permission would not be granted unless the charge was paid. Representatives of the Builders’ Association of India said the charge was intended to cover the cost of additional infrastructure that special buildings required.

The charge was especially exorbitant for residential projects, they said.

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