PCMC to residents: Start applying for regularisation of illegal structures

PCMC said the applications in this regard will be received for a period of six months. If a society is illegal, then one application from the society can be made. PCMC officials said those having illegal structures on PCNTDA and MIDC land should not apply. The rules stated that unauthorised structures on ‘inam lands’ and ‘class II’ occupants lands on production of clearance or no objection certificate from the competent authority will be regularised. They specified that authorised structures on lands reserved for public purposes, except playground, garden and open spaces, will be regularised, if the said reservation is shifted or deleted after following due process of law, subject to condition that the cost of shifting or deletion is borne by the owner or the occupier.

As per the notification, illegal structures on lands reserved for linear reservations, such as roads, railways and metros in any plan, can be regularised, if the said linear reservations are shifted after following the due process of law. Similarly, unauthorised structures violating the land use zone would be regularised if the land use zone is changed after following the due process of law. Unauthorised structures on government lands or lands owned by other public authorities would regularised on production of no objection certificate from the land owning authority and after transfer or allotment or lease of such land to concerned person. The rules also stated that illegal structures on land earmarked for any special scheme for rehabilitation or resettlement of any project-affected person would be regularised at the discretion of the Planning Authority.