In a bid to check haphazard growth in the state, the Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday announced the state government would soon amend the Punjab Apartment Property Regulation (PAPR) Act, 1995 to insert stringent provisions of law to deter the erring colonisers and builders indulging in the construction of unauthorised colonies on one hand and fleecing the innocent people on the other.
Presiding over a meeting of the delegation of the Punjab unit of Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) at here on Friday, Badal asked the secretary housing and urban development to study the procedure adopted by the Haryana government to prevent the construction of unauthorised colonies.
Showing deep concern over the growing trend of unauthorised colonies in Punjab, Badal said, ?It is not only detrimental to the holistic growth and development of the state but also causes sheer exploitation and harassment to the people, who are left in lurch sans proper infrastructural facilities in these colonies.?
Responding to the demands raised by the delegation of CREDAI, the CM asked the Punjab State Power Corporation to provide either single point metering system to the promoters of the licensed colonies or an individual meter to all the residents.
Badal also directed the chairman, Punjab State Power Corporation to install the 66 kv grid sub station within the premises of licensed colonies by charging Rs 3 crore from the promoters in addition to 5% ex-gratia on account of escalation in the cost of electrical equipment and material.
The CM also asked the chairman of the Punjab Pollution Control Board to issue ?No Objection Certificate? to the promoters and the colonisers positively within 90 days and in case of not raising any objection in this regard within the stipulated time frame, failing which it would deemed to be issued.
He, however, said the board should also ensure that at the time to receiving applications it should intimate the entire procedure to the promoters and thereafter no piecemeal objections should be raised.