C Shivakumar
Chennai:
A total of 391.76 acres of Tamil Nadu Housing Board land worth Rs 442.99 crore has been encroached and needs to be evicted, according to the audit report on the annual accounts of the Tamil Nadu Housing Board.
The report, which was tabled in the state assembly on Friday, stated that the highest value of land encroachments happened in Anna Nagar (Rs 178 crore), Besant Nagar (Rs 177.28 crore) and Mogappair (Rs 47.63 crore) in Chennai and Coimbatore (Rs 17.06 crore).
As per area, KK Nagar in Chennai tops the list with 229.60 acres of TNHB land being encroached followed by 82.64 acres of land in Coimbatore.
Interestingly, the report also points out that 3,535 acres of land were acquired by TNHB but were not utilized. Some of these include Anna Nagar (62.08 acres), Besant Nagar (114.91 acres), K K Nagar (316.85 acres) and Mogappair (46.95 acres).
Surprisingly, the report also states a total of 3,528.79 acres of land was acquired but they are yet to be handed to Tamil Nadu Housing Board legally by the revenue department even though awards were passed and payments were made. Meanwhile, the housing board has yet to be reimbursed Rs 11.37 crore which it spent for land acquisition after the acquisition was quashed by the court.
The report also stated that a total of 4,975 housing units worth Rs 334.06 crore remained unsold. These include 228 flats, 589 houses and 4158 plots. The report also said that commercial plots worth Rs 1,091 crore remain unsold. These include shops, schools, commercial and public purpose plots.
The report also highlighted irregularities in the consolidated report sent by the division and the board’s annual accounts.
“As per consolidated reports sent by division, the value of unsold stock amounts to Rs 1,425 crore while the schedule 29 of Boards annual accounts lists the value of unsold stocks as Rs 189.11 crore.
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