Legality of Constructions to be regulated by Others
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation has recently discovered around 33 properties from the area of Tawade Hotel which have been regularized under the act of Gunthewari. No action can be implemented because of the rules listed in the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act of 1966.
According to Burhan Naikawadi, secretary of Prajasattak Samaj Seva Sanstha, the KMC should definitely launch a case against the property owners since constructions on reserved lands has been considered as an offence, that too for a private purpose.
Recently, the KMC has gone ahead and issued notices of demolishment to the constructions on reserved lands. This caused the property owners to visit the court. June 12th is the next date for hearing the cases. The regularised construction hasn’t been confirmed yet and there is no assurance whether the KMC has regularized these structures or not.
The civic administration hasn’t confirmed yet when the city’s development plan will be implemented and whether the constructions which are regularized came before or after the year 2001. In case the civic administration is not able to acquire the land in 10 years once the notice of purchase has been issued, it will be lead to lapsing of reservations and no measure can be taken to acquire them any further for any public purpose.
Source: TNN
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