HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has decided to act tough against applicants of Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS), who failed to pay the balance fee for the approved applications despite several reminders.
Hence, as many as 4,000 LRS applicants whose layouts have been approved in last six months after thorough scrutiny would be given a last chance to pay the balance fee amount up to January 31, 2017 without any penal fee.
A monthly interest of 10 per cent on the total fee payable will be slapped for three months from February 1 to April 30, 2017, HMDA metropolitan commissioner, T Chiranjeevulu said. If the applicants fail to utilise the given opportunity for obtaining the approved LRS certificate before April 30, the HMDA would reject the applications and the initial processing fee that was paid while submitting the applications online would be forfeited, he added.
In the last six months, HMDA have sent intimation letters and regular SMS messages to about 4,000 applicants asking them to pay remaining LRS fee and take the approved LRS certificate from the Town Planning wing of HMDA. However, despite several reminders, the applicants failed to respond to HMDA intimation letters.
“How long we can keep pending the file, we have given sufficient time to the applicants and cannot wait for long, their applications would be rejected if they fail to pay the balance fee in the given time,” metropolitan commissioner said.
Under LRS scheme, the HMDA had received 1,31,990 applications, of them about 98,750 applications have been examined and 2,480 LRS certificates were issued, 4,000 LRS which were found in order with all required documents, HMDA had sent intimation letters to pay the due amount.
Some 20,000 to 25,000 LRS applications have shortfalls such as attested documents of registered sale deed, title deed executed, location plan, detailed layout to scale showing plotted area, etc. The applicants will be given three months time to submit the documents.
By June 2017, remaining applications will be examined he said. Under Building Regularisation Scheme, HMDA received 37,110 applications and could not be processed due court cases pending in the High Court.