Saturday, December 09, 2006

Seven-day notice issued to commercial buildings

Seven-day notice issued to commercial buildings
The Hindu - Staff Correspondent

They do not possess completion certificate and building permission
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# HDMC will evict the occupants and seal the buildings
# List of buildings announced in October and given ultimatum
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HUBLI: In continuance of its drive against commercial buildings of more than 2,000 square feet, in the twin cities, that don't possess completion certificate and are built without taking building permission, the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation has issued a seven-day notice to the owners that it would not allow such buildings to be occupied.

The notice/order issued by HDMC Commissioner P. Manivannan, which was released to the media on Thursday said, "all the persons connected with those buildings in any manner, which are constructed without obtaining building permission as required by section 300 of KMC Act and in violation of approved building plan and occupied either partially or fully, without the completion certificate issued by the HDMC under section 310 of the Act, are hereby informed that the said buildings are in violation of the KMC Act and hence the HDMC has to take such action of not permitting occupation of the said buildings".

The Commissioner has appealed to the owners of such buildings to approach the concerned officers of the Corporation by making a written statement of objections, within seven days of the publication of the notification, i.e. before December 16.

He has warned that if the owners of such buildings fail to file objections within seven days, the HDMC will evict the occupants and seal the buildings.

It may be recalled that the HDMC had announced a list of commercial buildings above 2,000 square feet without a completion certificate and building permission in October and given four-week ultimatum to the owners to take requisite steps.

Number of buildings

M.S. Srikar, Deputy Commissioner of Dharwad and administrator for HDMC, had on the occasion, informed that there were 407 commercial buildings (of 2,000 square feet and above).

Of these 241 had been constructed after getting building permission, but were occupied without obtaining completion certificate. And 166 buildings had neither the building permission nor the completion certificate.

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