On the first day of the melas organised zone-wise to clear the Layout Regularisation applications, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation could process 207 pleas, which had fallen short of documents and issued proceedings with regard to 189 applications after payment of balance fee. The corporation on Thursday intimated that out of 1,500 applicants in its five zones, whose applications had fallen short of documents, only 809 attended the melas.
The East Zone had 390 applicants, while the North Zone had 240. The West Zone saw 113 persons come there, while the South and Central zones had only 44 and 22 applicants in their respective melas. All put together 222 applications were uploaded, a statement from the Corporation informed.
A total of 1,063 applicants were informed about the balance fee payment, the highest in East Zone at 662. However, only 175 turned up for the melas, the South and Central zones registering nil and the West Zone, only one.
The Corporation organised the two-day melas for speedy clearance of the applications, with strict instructions to clear 150 applications per day. The melas will continue on Friday too.
