200 notices issued for violating building bylaws in Faridabad

The enforcement wing of the District Town Planner (DTP) office has issued around 200 notices regarding the violation of the building bylaws in the residential sector of 49, which falls in the NIT zone of the city. This comes as part of the compliance of the directions issued to the district authorities in response to a PIL raised by the colony developer.

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The Municipal Corporation, Faridabad, (MCF) has also sealed or removed as 44 unauthorised constructions in the area in the past one year.

“While a survey of the constructions in Sainik Colony of the area had been on, the department had issued 120 notices last month for the alleged violations of the building bylaws,” says Rajender Sharma, DTP, (enforcement wing) here. He added that 80 more notices would be served within a week. He said while the work had been stalled due to the imposition of the model code of conduct during the election period that ran for more than six months, he said the survey would be over in the next 45 days, followed by and a conclusive action was likely to come within two months of time.

The DTP office would ensure that the illegal buildings are either action sealed or demolished, he added. The violations include the construction of third and fourth floors and encroachment of the space meant for parking in the buildings that have been allowed under the stilt-plus-floor plans. It is, however, being claimed that many builders or owners have gone for constructions without the compliance of the norms, resulting in violations.

The matter had surfaced after a petition was filed in the high court in 2015. According to sources, an area having around 1,300 plots in the colony have been in the jurisdiction of the DTP office while the rest comes under the administrative control of the MCF. Hundreds of violations of the FAR ratio (measurement of a building’’s floor area in relation to the size of the lot) have been witnessed on plots having a size of less than 180 sq yards, which is the minimum size allowed for the stilt-plus-four floor buildings,” says Jitender Bhadana, a resident.

The MCF had already carried out a drive in the colony, in which several constructions had either been demolished or sealed. The matter stood almost closed, though the work of keeping a vigil had still been on, said an MCF official.

“The matter stands disposed of after the compliance of the directions issued by the court,” said Jitender Garg, Joint Commissioner, MCF (NIT zone).