MUDA urged to reduce fine for illegal plots

 12 February 2010, 10:13pm IST


 Mangalore Urban Development Authority (MUDA)
   

MANGALORE: The Karavali Karnataka Civil Rights Protection Trust
 has urged the urban development minister to reduce the
fine amount for legalizing
illegal layouts from 15% to 5%.

Protesting against various shortcomings
in the Mangalore Urban Development Authority
 (MUDA) and city corporation in front of the
deputy commissioner's office here on Thursday,
Mariamma Thomas, president of the trust, said
DK and Udupi had a different topography than
the others parts of the state and the MCC and
MUDA were framing rules which were inconveniencing
 the people.

She pointed out that the MUDA officials take months
 to grant a zone or a no objection certificate (NOC)
and demanded the minister to direct officials to give
 zone certificate in a week, NOC within a fortnight
and layout certificate in a month.

The other members pointed out that while getting
permission for a residential building, the MCC officers
demand for a single site approval from MUDA.

They argued that when MUDA takes months for a
zone certificate; this will take more than a couple
of months, urging minister to simplify licensing norms
 and give door numbers to houses which have been constructed by poor.

They have demanded a change in master plan, claiming
that officials carried out the exercise without taking
people into confidence and appoint a special officer
 for public contact meet at least once in six months.