Haryana Government has constituted ‘Allottees Grievances Redressal Forum’ at district level under the chairmanship of deputy commissioner concerned to resolve complaints involving bilateral disputes between flat owners or allottees and developers to whom licenses have been granted under the provisions of Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975.
The forum would
meet atleast once in a month to resolve genuine grievances and complaints of allottees of licenced colonies expeditiously.
Apart from this, Deputy Commissioner Gurgaon has been permitted to sign MOU with the National law University, Dwarka-Delhi, so as to seek legal assistance in dealing with the grievances and complaints of the allottees, said a spokesman of the Town and Country Planning Department.
He said that other members of the Forum included Administrator, HUDA, Superintendent of Police or Deputy Superintendent of Police, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation or Executive Officer or Secretary of Municipal Council or Committee, Superintending Engineer, HUDA, Superintending Engineer, Operations of DHBVNl or UHBVNl, District Registrar of Societies-cum-Joint or Deputy Director, Industries Department. The concerned District Town and Country Planner will be Member Secretary.
The spokesman said that in order to provide information to the public regarding the pending licence and ClU applications, the Department has hosted all the relevant information on the website of the Department.
Apart from this, the Department has also decided to update other information on the website like licenses and ClU permissions, zoning plans, renewal and transfer of license, building plan approvals, occupation certificate and completion certificate, said he.
The District Town Planners all over the State are issuing the NOCs online with effect from August 1, 2016, he added.
He said that the State Government has also implemented a Policy for curtailing the unauthorized retention of money by the colonizers on account of registration charges. In order to ensure that no delay in registration of sale deed or conveyance deed takes place even after recovery of stamp duty, a policy has been introduced and the compliance of the same is ensured at the time of granting statutory approvals to the coloniser, by submission of a certificate from the competent Chartered Accountant that the licensee is not retaining any stamp duty or registration charges from the allottees, added the spokesman.
He also said that the Government has also implemented EDC Relief and Recovery Policy to put in place a better mechanism to ensure the recovery of External Development Charges (EDC) and Internal Development Charges (IDC) in future licenses as well as to facilitate the colonisers to implement their projects inspite of overdue EDC and IDC amount subject to certain conditions, with no relief in the rates of EDC and IDC, interest and penal interest.
He said that in view of Enterprises Promotion Policy, 2015, the Department has framed a policy for grant of Industrial ClU permission having investment less than Rs 10 crore or area less than one acre within conforming industrial zone by the District level Clearance Committee headed by respective Deputy Commissioners of the State. The other cases for Industrial ClU permission shall be considered by Empowered Executive Committee notified under the Policy, he added.