MC issues showcause to building inspectors for violating by-laws

It is to be noted that two survey teams were especially formed by commissioner in past week to check illegal buildings in city. Playing the trick, one team constituted of members from Municipal Corporation’s building branch and other team was of employees who are not part of building branch. The report by non-building branch employees was submitted on Wednesday while the other report by building branch inspectors was submitted to commissioner on Thursday.

The report submitted by staff of building branch had no clear information and exact locations of illegal buildings confirming foul play whereas the other report by other employees gave list of illegal buildings mushrooming across the city after which MC comissioner decided to issue showcause notice to all building inspectors on late Thursday.

Talking to Newsline, Aggarwal confirmed that the building inspectors’ report have no clear data and information on illegasl buildings in city. He added that even information on challans issued to defaulters and violators is not clear in report. “I have decided to issue show-cause notices to all the building inspectors and they have been asked to submit detailed explanation and revised reports till Monday,” he added.

The building branch of Ludhiana MC is presently in tatters. While Zone C ATP was caught taking bribe, ATP headquarters Kamaljeet Kaur who was also handling Zone A was transferred to Jalandhar recently. Zone B ATP Monika Anand is handling additional charge of Zone D after transfer of Rajinder Sharma for ‘discrepancies’ after orders from local bodies department. Zone A ATP Harpreet Ghai was too transferred for allegedly favoring some owners of illegal buildings.