Illegal structures to be regularised

Under the policy decision, the government has asked all those institutes, hotels and industrial units that had been constructed or developed without requisite permission to avail the offer.

The structures, which had come up illegally before or after the enforcement of the Rules on January 21, 2005, were asked to apply to the chief administrators CAs of the development authority concerned, including PUDA, Greater Mohali Area Development Authority GMADA, Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority GLADA, Jalandhar Development Authority JDA and Bathinda Development Authority BDA, within 30 days of the public notice, which was issued on Friday.

As per the policy, the promoters and developers of the illegal structures will have to deposit the applicable change of land use CLU charges, external development charges EDC and licence fee with their respective building plans for approval.

Confirming the decision, Secretary, Housing and Urban Development SHUD, Punjab, Arun Goel told The Indian Express that only those structures that conform to all the prevailing rules and regulations and where the full and final levies applicable have been deposited will be regularised.

8220;The policy does not mean that all illegalities will be legalised,8221; clarified the Secretary, Housing and Urban Development, adding that the applicants will have to first amend their building plans as per rules and remove violations, if any, before getting regularised.

Goel disclosed that the government took this decision while considering representations from certain developers and promoters who were willing to conform to all prevailing rules and regularisation, besides paying all applicable charges, for getting their structures regularised.

Chief Town Planner CTP of Punjab Rajinder Sharma divulged that the hotels applying for regularisation will have to be in accordance with the policy for hotels and, likewise, professional institutes will have to fulfill the rules and regulations of their statutory body, All India Council for Technical Education AICTE, before seeking regularisation.

8220;Any violation or illegality will not be regularised at any cost, but under this policy, all the structures obeying the rules will be regularised without any fine,8221; revealed Sharma.

PUDA CA Som Parkash said though the decision was taken at the government level, PUDA was made the nodal agency to issue notice on behalf of all the development authorities to inform the public in this regard. 8220;All applications received under this policy will be forwarded to the government, which will consider them in consultation with the CTP,8221; he disclosed.

Greater Mohali Area Development Authority Chief Administrator Vivek Partap Singh said, 8220;Regularisations will be made as per the draft master plans of the area concerned as nothing violating the planned developed criterion could be given assent.8221;