Flat owners can apply for occupancy certificate
PUNE: Individual flat owners in the city can directly approach the Pune Municipal Corporation for occupancy certificates (OC). There are around six lakh residential properties and 75,000 non residential properties in the city and the civic body claims many of these identified and assessed properties have not obtained OCs. Close to 20 lakh people in the maximum city, out of an estimated population of 2 crores, may have spent a lifetime of savings to buy a house built by flouting government norms.
The fate of the 96 flats in the Campa Cola society, ruled illegal by the Supreme Court, hangs in balance but builders have, of late, flouted norms and guidelines so frequently that most of the recent purchases may be under the scanner. Sample this: Only 48 per cent of the residential constructions between 2004 and 2012 have a No Objection Certificate. Many societies don't have fire certificates.
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A flat in this building costs a whopping 7 crores but the top Polo Shirts two floors of the building are illegal. The owner made his profits by selling off the 22 illegal flats on the third and fourth floors and now the residents are on their own. The Juhu Shlaka Building, where a flat costs between 2 to 2.5 crores, does not have an occupancy certificate and the eighth floor was constructed without the permission of BMC.
The owners even converted the second and the third floors to commercial premises without permission. The 43 families staying in the Moti Co operative society in Western Mumbai have been neither given a registration certificate nor do they have an occupancy certificate.
So, while the residents of the Campa Cola Society spend sleepless nights on whether their houses will stay or be razed down as the Supreme Court's May deadline nears, who should take the blame?
Enforcing the existing law and statuettes will render 20 lakh people homeless in the city and does not seem a prudent option as echoed by former BMC deputy commissioner B M Khairnar on the programme. Yes, there is an urgent need to get rid of the BMC, politicians and builders nexus but the buyers also need to be very alert while buying a house. Close to 20 lakh people in the maximum city, out of an estimated population of Nike Air Huarache 2 crores, may have spent a lifetime of savings to buy a house built by flouting government norms.
The fate of the 96 flats in the Campa Cola society, ruled illegal by the Supreme Court, hangs in balance but builders have, of late, flouted norms and guidelines so frequently that most of the recent purchases may be under the scanner. Sample this: Only 48 per cent of the residential constructions between 2004 and 2012 have a No Objection Certificate. Many societies don't have fire certificates.
In some cases there is no registration and flats have been given without possession certificates. In the concrete jungle that Mumbai has become, examples like the Campa Cola society are found in abundance where the builders have greased the palms of the officialdom and have had their way. And all this is done with the silent approval of our politicians. Just like the owners built additional floors in the Campa Cola society, 12 Parel House is another example of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's ineffectiveness in enforcing the guidelines.
A flat in this building costs a whopping 7 crores but the top two floors of the building are illegal. The owner made his profits by selling off the 22 illegal flats on the third and fourth floors and now the residents are on their own. The Juhu Shlaka Building, where a flat costs between 2 to 2.5 crores, does not have an occupancy certificate and the eighth floor was constructed without the permission of BMC.
The owners even converted the second and the third floors to commercial premises without permission. The 43 families staying in the Moti Co operative society in Western Mumbai have been neither given a registration certificate nor do they have an occupancy certificate.
So, while the residents of the Campa Cola Society spend sleepless nights on whether their houses will stay or be razed down as the Supreme Court's May deadline nears, who should take the blame?
Enforcing the existing law and statuettes will render 20 lakh people homeless in the city and does not seem a prudent option as echoed by former BMC deputy commissioner B M Khairnar on the programme. Yes, there is an urgent need to get rid of the BMC, politicians and builders nexus but the buyers also need to be very alert while buying a house.
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