Chennai:
Two weeks after making it mandatory to have a certificate from the revenue authority to get planning approvals following the direction from the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has eased its rule due to pressure from developers.
It was on February 9, the member secretary of CMDA passed an order that a certificate from revenue authorities is a must while submitting application for planning permission.
The stricture was passed after Madurai Bench of Madras High court ruled that local planning authorities as well as Metropolitan Development Authorities should be directed by the government not to grant approval for any layout or building plan if the land is located either in part or in whole in a water body.
CMDA order stated that the revenue certificate should state that the site is not a water body or a poromboke land besides it is not covered under land ceiling and land acquisition.
However, two weeks since the order was implemented, there has been lot of pressure from the developers to relax the rule.
It was on February 26, CMDA member secretary A Karthik issued a fresh order relaxing the norms of submitting a revenue certificate.
“Lot of representation expressing the difficulties in producing such certificates from revenue departments at the time of submission of planning permission applications were made to member secretary. Considering the practical difficulties...CMDA will take undertaking from applicants to produce the revenue certification within a month’ s time and to admit the PPAs,” the member secretary has said in the order.
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