Chennai development body to crack down on unauthorized construction
CHENNAI: The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) tasked to solve unlawful development in the city has clasped and sealed a maximum of 15 so buildings a year since 2017.
This when there are objections about at least 1,000 such illegal buildings scattered over the Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA), which holds the city proper and neighborhoods in Kanchipuram, Chengalpattu, and Tiruvallur districts.
The Special Task Force (STF), a numerous-department body fixed up 11 months ago to recognize and shut down illegal and unauthorized buildings, also endures a silent witness.
Officials accuse it on the shortage of staff, urban development officials charge it on combined-up preferences.
This year, officials had to repeatedly shut down 35 buildings that had been sealed in the history but were consequently controlled by the violators. Meanwhile, a bulk of these structures are established at Thyagaraya Nagar and George Town, few are located on the outskirts of the city.
Besides managing three conferences, the STF, which has delegates from 14 agencies involving housing and urban expansion, police, Metro water, Greater Chennai Corporation, municipal administration, and Tangedco has not produced much to shorten infractions. The formidable idea was to implement STF area staff with GPS-enabled cameras to solicit pictures and videos of infractions that could be utilized as proof to begin performance.
Official experts said manpower was the most significant bottleneck. The outlining Authority (CMDA) that should have a power of 800 employees is operating with less than 250 persons, said a housing and urban development department administrator. In various circumstances, local bodies that handle stress not to seal buildings were anticipating CMDA’s assistance,” the official continued.
CMDA member-secretary D Karthikeyan and housing and urban development superintendent Rajesh Lakhoni could not be contacted by TOI for their judgments.
Urban development authorities said CMDA should concenter on plan and extension and consent implementation to other offices like the civic body. The former professor of urban engineering at Anna University K P Subramanian stated the outlining authority could provide to be only reactive and no proactive in implementation because of a labor deficiency.
“They could take implementation performance only on descriptions or appeals from acquaintances of violators. Therefore, CMDA should choose execution duties to the Greater Chennai Corporation and another local body and concentrate on own planning and improvement,” he continued.
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