Processing of more than 5,700 of the 13,169 applications submitted for Building Penalisation Scheme (BPS) to GVMC still remains to begin.
The scheme is meant for regularisation of buildings or flats constructed violating the rules in the plan approved.
More than four months after the deadline for applying for the scheme, for only 202 of the 13,169 applications complete proceedings, including release of the plan, have been issued.
This has led to concern among people on what had happened to their applications and their status.
For another 1,019 necessary paper work has been completed but proceedings have to be issued by officials of the City Planning Department, it was learnt.
Another 6162 applications are found to have "shortfalls" in the submission of the required documents along with the application.
Online
Unlike in the earlier regularisation schemes, the current BPS scheme is totally online.
GVMC has enlisted the services of licensed technical persons (LTPs) to enable the submission of applications uploading the necessary documents.
The email id and phone number of the applicants are included in the application submitted for further communication.
"However, to tackle the online process some of the applicants may have given the phone numbers and email ids of LTPs. Perhaps with the heavy work load and LTPs dealing with a large number of applications, the submission of the uploading of documents has not been done so far," says Chief City Planner D. Venkata Ratnam.
Applicants, who have given their email id and phone number, are confident that since there has been no communication so far they can still wait for the process to begin and completed in due course. “But when notices are issued they should be given enough time to pay the balance fee for regularisation,” said an applicant. At the time of applying online, Rs.10000 was paid as initial fee.
Meanwhile, the LTPs are assigned the task of geo-tagging of recharge pits leading to some delay in taking up uploading for BPS applications.
"The processing of BPS applications will be speeded up this month and around 5000 will be completed by release of plans," says the CCP.
The government has given a time of six months, from January 31, the last date for online applications, for their disposal. However, it later directed that process should be completed by the end of May.
But taking the present status into consideration, it may stretch up to the stipulated period.
