Govt land development agencies not exempted from CLU charges

Pradeep Sharma

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 29

The Haryana Government has clarified that its land development agencies, including the Haryana Shehari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP), Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) and Haryana Housing Board (HHB), are not exempted from paying change of land use (CLU) and other statutory charges.

In an official communication to several government departments, the Town and Country Planning Department clarified that “local authorities exempted from obtaining licences will be liable to pay conversion charges. But they will be exempted from making an application under the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975”.

“The scrutiny fee, licence fee and external development charges (EDC) will also be levied for the development of any colony as per provisions of the Act,” it asserted.

Saying that the new order has been issued “to answer queries from various departments on the charges and permissions involved in the land development process”, the order said that besides conversion charges, the infrastructure development charges (IDC) were also leviable from all land development authorities. The date of first inviting applications for the sale of plot in any colony will be deemed to be the date of grant of licence for the purpose of deposit of IDC.

‘Liable to pay conversion fee’ 

In an official communication to several government departments, the Town and Country Planning Department clarified that “local authorities exempted from obtaining licences will be liable to pay conversion charges. But they will be exempted from making an application under the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975”