Bureaucrat sets right construction approval system
In India, where the bureaucracy is often criticized to be working under political pressure or in nexus with the lobbies, a bureaucrat’s action would be appreciated to work out a solid construction approval system in Mumbai. The influence of the powerful builders’ lobby in Mumbai has been curtailed due to the firm steps taken by recently retired city’s municipal commissioner Subodh Kumar.
His predecessors were known to be granting projects with unusually large flower beds, voids, lily ponds and car decks. These areas are not included in the building’s floor space index (FSI), which would allow developers to build an additional 50 per cent to 80 per cent above the permitted built up area.
The developer would sell these free spaces to buyers at market rate and then encourage them to illegally amalgamate these areas to make the apartment bigger. It was in practice due to political pressures or extraneous reasons the predecessors were clearing away projects granting huge concessions to the big builders who could work their way into the system.
The racket was rampant in the lucrative Bandra-Khar-Santa-Cruz-Juhu belt and only after Mr. Kumar’s taking over the charges that all the builders were at the same level to bid and the land prices in the areas were also stabilized.
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Source: The Times of India
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