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Cidco offers amnesty scheme to prevent misuse of allotted land across Navi Mumbai
Cidco has offered one last opportunity to lease holders who have not developed their land.B B Nayak | TNN | February 16, 2019, 12:56 IST
NAVI MUMBAI: Considering the rampant misuse of leased land across the city allotted for residential, commercial, service industry, warehouse, social facility like religious and education purposes, Cidco has announced an amnesty scheme in order to regulate the use of plots and avoid further infringement. The agency has been spending huge amounts time and again to clear open plots from the clutches of encroachers.
Cidco has offered one last opportunity to lease holders who have not developed their land. They have asked them to come forward and execute the modified lease agreement within the next six months and to develop the plots within the next two years from the date of inking the fresh agreement. Failure of abiding by the modified agreement, Cidco will take back the plots on expiry of stipulated two years. Cidco is in the process of listing the number of such unused plots allotted for various purposes in the city, starting from Airoli node.
"We have launched the exercise to survey such plots where construction is yet to commence even after so many years. This comes to fore when the lease holders approach us now after expiry of the construction period for permission to resume work," Faiyaz Khan, manager, town services, Cidco, said.
During the ongoing survey of such plots, Cidco has found that the plots allotted for various purposes have violated the mandatory lease condition of completing the construction within the given timeframe. Hence, encroachment took place; for which Cidco continues to remain the custodian of such plots by clearing the encroachment time and again. "The scheme is to do away with encroachment," said Cidco officials.
For this reason, Cidco has initiated this scheme to put the open plots to proper use in order to curb encroachments, especially when Swachh Abhiyan campaign is underway.
According to Cidco, the amnesty scheme is applicable for those who have not obtained the development permission and the maximum extendable period from the date of agreement to lease (18 years in case of plots allotted prior to 2004 and 16 years for plots allotted after implementation of NMDLAR-2008) has expired. "From now, lease holders can start applying for amnesty schemes for revalidation of their license. Further delay will attract cumulative penalty and premium," said Khan.
The licensee will be granted an extension of time till the current year on payment of additional lease premium as per prevailing policy. After that modified agreement will be executed, allowing two years for construction.
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