AUDA officials sleep while builders make big bucks and start construction of projects.
Be careful if you are planning to book space for your dream home in Bopal. Better you ask builder if they have secured the Non-Agriculture (NA) certificate to start construction for the project!
While residential schemes in one of the developing areas, Bopal, are mushrooming, data available with the collectorate will shock you: Officials say they have not issued NA certificates for the last two years.
DNA came across at least four residential schemes
in Bopal for which construction and booking have started without the NA certificate being obtained! In such a situation, buyers are at risk because construction of 'illegal' projects would be halted till the necessary permission is secured from the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) and NA certificate from the collector.
District collector Harit Shukla told DNA that they have not given NA certificates to anyone in the last two years.
And some of the builders had procured the certificate before the collector's office stopped issuing permission and so they started construction of the residential scheme, said an AUDA official. It was decided that fresh NAs would be given by the collector's office once the AUDA completes work of drainage work in Bopal, an AUDA officer said.
"It will take at least six months to complete drainage work in Bopal and so logically, NA certificates would be issued after six months," said the official. Meanwhile, AUDA officials who claim to take rounds of Bopal area to inspect the civic amenities there, seem to be ignorant of such illegal constructions.
When DNA called up AUDA chairman Dharmendra Shah to check if his officials keep vigil on such constructions, he said, "Of course they inspect such places". But he failed to say why AUDA officials have not taken strict action against such constructions. All he could say was, "I will look into the matter".
Another AUDA official said that they can stop such illegal construction only if they receive some kind of complaints from denizens.
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