Tracking of unauthorised construction lags


The system of tracking instances of unauthorised construction in each of the 200 wards of the Chennai Corporation is in a shambles.

Most of the assistant engineers in the 200 wards do not maintain a register for unauthorised constructions.

As a result, most of the violations of development regulations are not recorded at the ward level.

Even as the civic body claims that the system of tracking unauthorised construction has been computerised, tracking the issuance of notice to unauthorised constructions remains a challenge. Printed booklets of the Unauthorised Construction Register have to be maintained at the ward level and any notice for violations has to be issued by the assistant engineers only using the booklets....................Read more

 

Source: The Hindu


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