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Chief Minister’s intervention sought Form committee to carry out emergency works Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) allottees have decided to picket the Board offices in the State on May 26 and file applications seeking correct status, information on the settlement of their dues and disbursement of sale deeds invoking the Right to Information Act. A resolution to this effect was passed at the State general body meeting of the Tamizhaga Veetu Vasathi Vaariya Orunkinanitha Othukeetalargal Nala Sangham held at Coimbatore recently. The resolution pointed out that “gross administrative failure” led to inordinate delay in settlement of accounts and the board had chosen to levy interest on the allottees for the delay caused by the officials and the interest had now attracted penal interest and capitalisation of the interest. The financial burden imposed on the allottees for no fault of theirs should be waived. The Chief Minister should intervene and ensure that the allottees got their sale deeds during their lifetime at least for their future generations. To voice the nearly decade-long grievances of the nearly five lakh allottees, the general body sought an audience for the representatives of the association with the Chief Minister. A number of litigations pending in the various courts under the Land Acquisition Act were the handiwork of a section of the officials who had colluded with the land owners and the meeting urged the Chief Minister to initiate remedial legal measures to get these cases cleared. Holding back of sale deeds in respect of houses on lands not involved in any acquisition-related litigation should be stopped forthwith. As per the lease-cum-sale agreement, deeds should be given to the allottees. Delay caused by the board in settlement of accounts resulted in the cost of houses escalating manifold and the government should come forward to clear this long-pending stalemate. All cases filed by the allottees across the State challenging the levy of interest and penal interest should be clubbed into one and arrangements should be made for early disposal of the same. The board should reduce the rate of interest as it was done by other housing finance institutions. To clear confusion and errors in accounts and to ensure transparency, the board should form committees in every district with representatives from the allottees’ association and provide the allottees with working sheet once in every six months. The board should also give up its proposal to change the reserve sites and public utility sites into commercial ones for sale. Across the State, the board had acquired several acres of land which were sold by land sharks leaving the buyers in the lurch. The government should review these cases and save hapless buyers from the plight. The practice of the officials referring even trivial issues to the high-level committee in a bid to shirk work and responsibility should be brought to an end. The meeting also resolved to request the government to take up inspection of the houses in a dilapidated condition. Instead of providing relief to the bereaved family members after the collapse of these houses that stood testimony to the poor quality of construction, the resolution urged the government to form an expert committee to carry out emergency repair works. The practice of contractual delays in completion of construction resulting in the allottees being penalised with interest should be stopped. The board should also stop the practice of obtaining signatures of the allottees on a stamp paper of Rs. 20 denomination while disbursing sale deed.
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