This is news of relief for 8,200 (Eight thousand and two hundred) people making illegal constructions on the reverse of the map. The mitigation plan is going to start from early July 21, 2020 to regularise construction as opposed to the map. Under this scheme, illegal construction against maps made before 15 July 2020 can be regularized by paying mitigation fee. Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has announced to start the scheme from July 21.
GDA Vice President Kanchan Verma told that there are about 8200 cases related to compounding and setback in the GDA, so after the introduction of this new scheme many different residential and commercial schemes are also likely to get applications. Many new GDA schemes will also be included in this plan.
She told that The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered the Ghaziabad Development Authority to implement the mitigation plan 2020 within 1 week.
The process of its application will start from July 21 and applications will be made to legalize illegal construction as opposed to maps in the scheme for the next 6 months.
The last date of application has been kept 20 January 2021, the new scheme has given the people a chance to legalize the construction along with paying less fines.
Authority has brought mitigation plan after 17 years
The Ghaziabad Development Authority is very excited about the scheme. It is hoped that the GDA, which is struggling with the economic crisis, will now get a chance to fill the bag.
According to the data, more than 15 thousand applications are estimated to be received by the GDA under this scheme, from which the GDA will receive revenue of crores of rupees.