Chennai:
Tamil Nadu government has extended the amnesty scheme by three months to grant lifeline to unauthorised buildings built before July 1, 2007 even as violators preferred to stay away rather than apply to regularise their buildings or flats.
As the original amnesty scheme for unauthorised developments set to lapse on Wednesday, a top official from the housing department said that the scheme has been extended by three more months.
As per information available with Express, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has till now received less than 500 applications for unauthorized building regulations. This is quite less when taken into account the number of unauthorized construction which could be more than 1.5 lakh.
The move comes after Madras High Court warned officials that they will be taken to task if they regularize buildings with setback violations. It is learnt that CMDA has sought legal advice from the advocate general whether to carry on with the regularization by regularizing building with setback violations. However, the advocate general has suggested to CMDA not to regularize setback violations of unauthorized buildings but to appeal against the court order.
Initially when the first deadline was extended due to poor response, only 35 have applied for the scheme. Sources indicated that the poor response is due to multiple infrastructure and amenities charges as penalty before regularising the buildings.
Interestingly, the current regularisation scheme is different from the earlier one. In the earlier regularisation scheme there were no conditions except credible evidence about the structure. Now they have included the required setback for regularisaing the building. “This has made many builders and developers think as T Nagar buildings won’t fall under the norms,” sources said.
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