The Centre has come out with a new scheme to regularise all unapproved layouts outside the areas coming under the comprehensive development plan in Puducherry and Karaikal regions.
The regularisation scheme will cover sites in unapproved layouts sold through registered sale deeds on or before January 30, 2017. Even if a portion of the layout has been sold through a registered sale deed, the entire layout becomes eligible for regularisation.
Not exempt
According to a top government official, if any plot or subdivision or layout, partially or wholly, is located on public water bodies such as channels, canals, tanks, lakes, rivers and government “poromboke land”, it would not be eligible for regularisation. Similarly, plots forming part of land earmarked for open space reservation (OSR), parks or play ground reserved in any approved layout or sub-division and vacant plots blocking access to surrounding roads would not be considered for regularisation under the scheme. Any plot encroaching a public road or street or any other land would not be eligible for regularisation under the scheme.
Regularisation fee
All individual plot owners and layout promoters eligible under the scheme will have to apply online to the authorities concerned in six months. Applicants will have to pay regularisation charges at the rate of ₹30 per sq.m. to the Town and Country Planning Department. The land use conversion charge will be charged at the rate of ₹100 per sq.m.
In the case of development charge, the rate will be fixed by the respective local bodies. For OSR charges, the rate as per requirement would be collected as per the guideline value.
A senior official pointed out that most of the unapproved layouts had been developed without adequate infrastructure. Regularisation of the unapproved layouts was necessary to mobilise financial resources to provide basic infrastructure.
Besides, regularisation of plots which were sold alone without considering the layout would result in discontinguous pockets of development, causing hardship to the local bodies to provide services to the regularised plots alone in isolation, he said.
