Hyderabad, May 31: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has slapped notices on three All-india Service (AIS) officers and two former civil servants for deviating from the sanctioned plan and constructing houses in the upmarket Prashasan Nagar in Jubilee Hills.
The corporation served notices on IAS officer AR Sukumar (plot no 232), IPS officer RP Meena (plot no 250), IFS officer PAV Udaya Bhaskar (146/A), former IFS officer Dr SN Jadhav (42) and retired IPS officer P Ananth Sayanam Reddy (166).
GHMC sources said Sukumar had taken permission for stilt plus three floors building for his 422-square metre plot in November 2007. Howerver, he constructed an additional floor, i.e., fourth one illegally.
RP Meena had taken permission for constructing stilt parking, ground, first and partly second floor for his plot admeasuring 427 sq metres in 2007, but the officer covered up the stilt portion, violating the parking norm.
Other officers deviated from the sanctioned plan and violated set back norms, constructed watchman room in cellar, etc.
“Notices were given to the officers under section 452 (2) of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 and they were asked to show cause why the portion of construction made in contrary to the sanctioned plan unauthorisedly should not be removed, altered or pulled down,” a GHMC town planning wing official told TOI.
“If the officer does not give a reply within 15 days or if the corporation is not satisfied with the reply, the GHMC will give another notice under section 636 of HMC Act 1955 and subsequently can demolish the illegal structures and recover expenses from the owner,” the official added.
The GHMC town planning staff had taken photographs of 14 underconstruction buildings in Prashasan Nagar since February, 2011 using the Off Site Real Time (OSRT) system and identified the six unauthorised constructions.
A 1986 batch IAS officer’s building is also under scrutiny and the town planning has called for the sanctioned plan. The official reportedly encroached upon common area of the colony.
“If the violations are minor in nature like set back violations, internal changes due to vaastu, they can be regularised by levying some penalty,” GHMC assistant city planner (circle 10) M Ramesh Babu told TOI.
Incidentally, the GHMC had earlier issued notices to some AIS officers who were violating land usage norm. Some of them had taken building permissions for residential purpose and converted them to commercial ones.
When contacted, GHMC commissioner Sameer Sharma said the town planning officials have been serving notices after identifying the illegal constructions under OSRT system. However, it needs to be seen whether the GHMC chief would send bulldozers to raze illegal structures of his own ilk.
–Agencies