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Order on ‘no development zone’ challenged
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: An elected member of the Sriperumbudur Panchayat Union Council has challenged a government order declaring an area of 300-metre radius around the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial at Sriperumbudur ‘no development zone.’
In the writ petition, S. Gopinath alias Komagan of Nemelli village said the Housing and Urban Development Department had issued an order in December last year declaring the zone and directed that it be incorporated in the New Town Development Plan.
He submitted that the statutory procedure had not been followed by the respondents — the Department Secretary, the Commissioner, the Town and Country Planning, the Kancheepuram Collector and the CMDA — while passing the order, which had resulted in several residents being displaced as no future development activity would be permissible. By the impugned notification, wards 5 to 8 and 10 and 11 would be affected. Besides the local residents, two colleges, a government higher secondary school, private schools, a bus terminus, a government hospital and the newly-commissioned court of the Judicial Magistrate-cum-District Munsif were in the zone.If, as a result of the government’s decision, all development activities were prohibited, there would be utter chaos in the locality.
Several approved housing layouts were located in the prohibited zone.
Neither the provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act nor the rules had been complied with.
No public notice was issued nor were the land owners consulted or objections called for prior to the modification of the existing the New Town Development Plan.
The petitioner prayed the court to quash the order. In the interim prayer, he sought the stay of the operation of the impugned G.O, pending disposal of the petition.
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