Regularisation fee: Amritsar Municipal Corporation to crack whip on defaulting colonisers

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, October 15

A large number of illegal colonies are being developed under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation Amritsar (MCA). The regulations process is also in limbo.

Malwinder Singh Jaggi, Commissioner, MCA, held a meeting with officials of the municipal town planning wing here on Thursday. The Commissioner instructed them to recover the pending regularisation fee from the colonisers, whose illegal colonies were regularised under the Regularisation Policy, 2014, of the state government.

According to information, the MTP wing of the MC had regularised 87 colonies as per the recommendations of the regularisation policy. Ironically, the colonisers have not deposited the regularisation fee so far. Jaggi asked the officials to collect the regularisation fee or take an appropriate action against defaulting colonisers.

Besides, there are 26 illegal colonies, which had applied for regularization, but didn’t pay the fee till date. The Commissioner instructed to the officials to send reminders to the colonisers to complete the process, pay the regularisation fee or face the music. “In case, the colonisers do not pay the fee, the MC would disconnect the water and sewer connections of these colonies,” said the MC Commissioner.

Malwinder Singh Jaggi also took a serious view of the fact that work was going on in illegal buildings without the building plan approval in the city. He asked the officials to take strict action against the violators otherwise the official concerned of the Municipal Town Planning (MTP) wing would face action.

The Commissioner asked them to prepare a list of defaulting colonisers and pending amount so the action could be taken accordingly. The officials were deputed to prepare lists and send reminders to colonisers.

It is worth mentioning here that there are more than 350 illegal colonies developed around the city and a number of colonies are still being developed.