Occupation certificate: HUDA allottees get another chance

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 17

As a goodwill gesture in its golden jubilee year, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has announced to provide another opportunity to its plot holders to apply for occupation certificates without payment of extension fees despite delays.

The authority has announced that those who apply for the occupation certificate between August 15 and December 31 will be able to get benefit of the scheme.

“HUDA had formulated guidelines on the subject in 2004 which remained in force till 2014. These guidelines provided that an allottee, who has constructed and occupied the building constructed on a residential/commercial/industrial and institutional plot without obtaining a valid occupation certificate, may subsequently make an application for issuance of the certificate. No extension fee was payable beyond the deemed date of completion of the building,” said a senior functionary of HUDA.

He said on the basis of reports received from field offices from time to time, it had been found that there still remained a considerable number of allottees who had been occupying buildings without having a valid occupation certificate.

“Since Haryana is celebrating 2016 as the golden jubilee year of formation, it has decided that as a goodwill gesture, all such allottees may again be given one-time opportunity to make an application for issuance of the occupation certificate between August 15 and December 31,” he said.

He said: “The allottees to file an application along with proof and documentary evidence, determining the date of completion of houses, to the satisfaction of Zonal Administrators and get the violations (if any) compounded after depositing the payable compounding fee, as per policy. Besides the compounding charges, the allottees shall have to pay one-time processing fee of Rs 10,000.”

He said that the occupation certificate requests of such allottees would be decided as per the extension policy, on the basis of the date of application and not on the actual date of construction of building.