Who is responsible for illegal buildings

Who is responsible for illegal buildings?

            Spate of illegal constructed buildings are crating untold miseries to the flat purchases while the builders are reaping enormous amounts and going scot free. This is happening in all the construction hubs all over the country. In Campa Cola Compound in Worli (Mumbai), 92 families living there for more than 20 years and have invested their life’s savings in the flats in Campa Cola Compound. In Worli some seven structures came up in 1980s. in Bangalore several illegal floor were added to the existing buildings illegally. Pratibha building in the South Mumbai added several illegal flats and was in news for several months. In Delhi also the same story was repeated may times. Now the question is who is actually responsible for the wholesal flouting of the municipal regulations for creating illegal floor to the buildings. Buildings are not constructed in a day. It takes months and years to construct. So the building construction takes time but during the construction period where are ward officers and municipal authorities?

            A builder cannot construct illegal buildings or add floors without the active convenience of these municipal authorities. Why they are keeping their eyes shut while these illegal construction are happening all around them. In fact when a buildings atarts construction, one is given NOC to construct only up to first floor and before that ha has to allow the authorities from the ward to check the plinth area. And only after checking the plinth builder is given permission to start work. So if this much checking is there than why and how, the builder is allowed to construct any further. Now the second factor is the unscrupulous builder, who bribes the municipal authorities, without considering the hardships flat purchasers will face. The unscrupulous builder wants to earn maximum amount illegally having no social responsibility. The third is the flat purchaser, who , knowingly or unknowingly purchase flats in these buildings. To check this menace of illegal buildings, he must check the plans and sanctions to construct through his lawyer and only after fully satisfying he should give advances to the buildings. Better still he must go in for completed buildings having certificate of completion from the authorities in writing.

          Murari Chaturvedi

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