City residents burdened due to misuse charges levied by UT Estate office can now heave a sign of relief.
Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Shivraj Patil on Thursday assured various association of the city to reduce the misuse charges of Rs500 per sq.ft in the city.
A Joint action committee for Chandigarh citizens met Patil and apprised him about various problems of the city residents.
During the meeting, Patil and members of the delegation discussed in detail about the hefty charges imposed on violations and misuse.
The Administrator agreed that the penalty is too high and he assured that immediately he will set it right.
The members also requested changes in building bylaws of Chandigarh.
The members told the Administrator that the existence of the city came in force about 55 years back and from then onwards the population of the city has increased many fold.
"The requirement of the individuals has subsequently increased. In most of
the buildings, the need based changes have been made as per their requirements
from time to time," said members.
After the detailed discussion on this issue, the Administrator assured the delegation that Administration will not charge any compounding fees and will regularize the need based changes in the buildings.
On this issue of collector rates, the members told the Administrator that the collector rate of commercial showrooms in Madhya Marg is more than double of the existing prevailing rates, even the properties are available less than half of the price of prevailing rates.
Patil assured to get re-surveyed the market prices of properties in Chandigarh.
At present, the collector rates for the built up areas for any floor are also more than double than the existing rates, even in market the built up area is available @ 9,000/- to 11,000/- per sq. ft. and the collector rates for the same are 17325/ to 20750/- per sq. ft. The collector rate of Rs2,16,216/- per sq. yard for converted plots in Industrial Area is more than double of the existing prevailing rates for these properties.
Members of various city's association including industries, business,hotels among others were part of the delegation that met Patil on Thursday.