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Amnesty Scheme: BDA nets Rs. 18 cr.

BHUBANESWAR: Amnesty Scheme for regularising constructions made in deviation of the approved plan on legal land in the capital city would never be offered to people in future, said Vice-Chairman of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) Deoranjan Kumar Singh here on Thursday.

The scheme was announced as per the Section 72 (2) of Planning and Building Regulation-2001, but this clause was done away with in the BDA Regulation–2008, Mr. Singh said.

“Still people can regularise construction violating norms, but the deviation should not be more than 10 per cent. In amnesty scheme, BDA had provided ample scope to legalise deviations amounting even more than 50 per cent,” the BDA Vice-Chairman said.

Under the Amnesty Scheme, the compounding fee was fixed at a flat Rs. 25 per square feet space whereas compounding in the present scheme varied keeping in mind of the gravity of violation below 10 per cent, he said.

In Bhubaneswar, BDA received about 4,000 applications for regularising the unauthorised constructions under Amnesty Scheme that ended on June 30 last. “We collected approximately Rs. 18 crore towards compounding fee,” Mr. Singh said.

Sources in real estate development groups, however, said response from people had been very poor to the Amnesty Scheme, which the BDA had also admitted.

A top executive of the BDA said, “people perhaps did not come to us since their houses fall in non-residential zones like flood zone. Moreover, many residential houses in the capital city are with zero setbacks (with no space left vacant on border of plot). These types of houses cannot be regularised.”

BDA is now preparing to take violators to the task for (knowingly) missing out the scheme.

“We are carrying out detailed survey in every area on building norm violations. BDA will slowly move in demolishing deviated structures,” he said.

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