Licence comes as a relief to builders
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Maintaining a register of builders and giving them licences is a novel idea, writes V. Geetanath
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Photo G. Krishnaswamy.
Welcome move: Builders are now required to register themselves with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation . -
Builders can certainly heave a sigh of relief considering that the Government or rather the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) had baulked in coming up with any measures to prosecute them for any misdemeanours in the regulations unveiled for their registration and giving licences.
“It might be considered later. In any case, it is a good beginning as we will now have a proper data of builders and real estate developers in the twin cities,” remarked a senior planning official.
Maintaining a register of builders and giving them licences as was made clear in the simplified common building rules last year is a novel idea whose time has come. With the mortgage clause and now with the threat of licences being revoked in case of constructions deviating from the sanctioned plan, building activity can be regulated to a large extent, affirms the official. Armed with the new rules, GHMC has asked the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) and Central Power Distribution Company Limited (CPDCL) not to give connections unless occupancy certificates are issued indicating that the building conformed to all regulations.
Additional Commissioner (Planning & Projects) K. Dhananjaya Reddy assures that licences to be valid for five years on payment of Rs. 1,000 per year would be issued the same day of application. The register to be maintained at the head office will have all the details of the builder or the real estate developer.
Open for anyone
The GHMC Commissioner is empowered to give licences, the power to revoke them and also debar them from undertaking such activity for three years for unauthorised constructions or deviations. These will have to be removed by the builder within a stipulated time on receipt of a statutory notice. Or, GHMC would remove the violated portion and dispose off the mortgaged part (10 per cent of built up area) in a public auction. Registration for licences is open for anyone not just a builder or real estate firm. Only requirements are income tax assessment for the past five years and a copy of the PAN card should be submitted. He should be a graduate in architecture or civil engineering or construction management or its equivalent with those with five years experience as a class one civil contractor or 10 years as class two civil contractor.
Whenever a building plan is submitted for clearance, the licence copy also has to be given. Licensed builders will have to strictly follow provisions of the master plan, zonal development plans, regulations and development rules. Licences have been issued to 15 persons till now.
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