Navi Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Manda Mhatre has requested Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to form a committee involving the Urban Development Secretary and the CIDCO managing director to understand the government resolution (GR) passed in April. “Navi Mumbai has two types of structures: irregular and illegal. Most of the times, the structures that could be regularised are termed illegal and have to face demolition. I was abled to stop demolition of four buildings in Digha by using this GR, and I would want Navi Mumbaikars to use this GR to save their properties,” said Ms. Mhatre.
Navi Mumbai is a combination of gaothan and non-gaothan areas, while some lands come under the 12.5% scheme of the CIDCO. “Clarity has to be there on the classification of each type of land, what is considered what, and the rules that should be followed by that kind of land,” Ms. Mhatre said, adding that the CM has assured to arrange a meeting at the earliest.
The GR has made an amendment to the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act to allow the government to levy a premium or compounding fee on residents and owners of unauthorised structures built before December 2015. The building then will be recorded as a compounded structure, and will not have to face demolition. The GR also mentions that any structure built before December 2015, which may have been termed illegal as per any Act, can be regularised by paying a penalty.
Activist Rajeev Mishra, on whose PIL, the Bombay High Court had ordered demolition of all illegal structures in Digha, said, “This GR will help all those who have constructed structures through illegal means regularise.”
