BRS mela to be a regular affair

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, AUG. 3. Buoyed by the response to the latest edition of the Building Regularisation Scheme (BRS) mela here on Friday, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad has decided to make it a regular feature henceforth. The `mela' would now be held every Saturday.

``After all, those who attended the redressal forum today are a minuscule when compared to the thousands of applications received by us,'' the MCH Commissioner, Dr. P.K. Mohanty, told The Hindu here on Friday. ``We are even planning to conduct a similar official-consumer interface for property tax related problems as well shortly,'' he disclosed.

Several individuals and builders with title deeds and other documents in hand attended the `BRS Grievance Day' and aired their doubts to a team of officials headed by Dr. Mohanty, Additional Commissioner, Planning, MCH, Mr. Karikal Valaven, and other officials.

``No one has gone back dissatisfied today. The earlier BRS melas were not very successful because the applicants had no access to the top brass of the corporation. Now, we have ensured a direct interface and are able to clear the doubts of many at one go,'' the MCH Commissioner said. He assured the applicants that no building would be demolished as long as it was under the BRS scheme.

He said 70 per cent of the cases represented to the corporation today pertained to the applicants' problems about various aspects of the BRS scheme, 20 per cent to anomalies in documents and another 10 per cent to lapses on the part of the authorities.

The builder of a eight-floor commercial complex in Secunderabad said installation of an elected body to the Corporation this year could undo the groundwork he had done to regularise a portion of the construction. ``From the past three years I have been running from pillar to post. With the new body coming up, I fear I have to start all over again,'' he said. Dr. Mohanty affirmed that civic bodies and officials could change, but not the rules. ``Be it the Council, the Special Officer or the BRS scheme, all are governed by the law. Law is a permanent resident here,'' he said.

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