PMC uploads photos of 1,739 illegal buildings on its website

Patna,(BiharTimes): Patna Municipal Corporation has uploaded, on its website www.patnanagarnigam.in, the photographs of 1,739 buildings, both under-construction and finished ones, which are alleged being built in the violation of by-laws stipulated by Bihar Municipal Act.

They included 995 in New Capital Circle, 529 in Bankipore Circle, 121 in Patna City and 94 in Kankarbagh.

The civic body also upload the list of buildings, their name and address, along with their ward number and police station area they fall under. This would make their identification easier.

The move comes in light of the hearing in a case against unregulated mushrooming of buildings in Patna. It will help the new buyers not to get trapped by the gullible builders.

Now residents can also file complaints against irregular building constructed in their vicinity on the website. Patna High Court had on May 10 instructed the PMC to take such measures prior to the hearing on August 12.

The PMC had also served notices to 792 building owners and 449 of them have been asked to stop construction work in view of the Patna High Court order. Their snap shots are also on the website.

The apartments coming up along the Ganga, where Ganga Expressway has been planned, are also under scrutiny.

According to PMC Commissioner Kuldip Narayan, it is a step to make citizens aware about the illegal constructions going on in their neighbourhood and also to warn those who are planning to buy new property.

Besides, the details of the building designs and preview reports approved by empanelled architects would be uploaded on the website defining the irregularities in actual shape of the building and the approved building designs.

Earlier, PMC had given a month’s time for furnishing details of more than 11ft high buildings coming up on a less than 20ft wide road under different categories––furnished, under construction and finished super structure, among others.

It needs to be recalled that on July 2, the PMC submitted before the division bench of the high court comprising Justice Navin Sinha and Justice Vikash Jain that 5,684 building plans were passed by registered architects between 2009 and 2012.

The court had directed the PMC that provision should also be made, so that the moment a complaint is registered, a number is generated and sent to the e-mail ID of the complainant, along with a confirmation. The report with regard to the action initiated on the complaint is also required to be generated and put on the website within 72 hours on the notice board against the particular complaint.