CHENNAI: Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) on Thursday said it would issue notices to 22 unauthorised multi-storied commercial buildings in the city within a week for which demolition notices have been served prior to 2007. The announcement comes after the 40th meeting of the Monitoring Committee held on July 15, when it was decided to issue lock and seal notices with regard to 48 cases of unauthorized multi-storied buildings. In all these cases, the Committee had issued demolition notices in 2007 after rejection of their Regularisation Scheme applications.Prior to this, CMDA had issued lock and seal notices to the owners and all the occupiers in 10 buildings.“As these notices are to be issued after a gap of over four years, a thorough update and verification of regularisation application files and developments taken place during this interim period was done,” a CMDA spokesman said.It was found that in some cases, the applicants submitted fresh evidence and the Committee regularized them with certain conditions. In other cases, the applicants submitted fresh representation or obtained court orders for re-examining the cases,” he added.These cases had to be examined before locking and sealing, the CMDA spokesman said.Interestingly, authorities from Metro Water, CMDA, Chennai Corporation and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) had come out with a strategy to initiate action against unauthorized constructions during the Committee meeting. While TNEB and Metro Water decided not to provide or disconnect service connections, Chennai Corporation has decided to initiate action by cancelling trade licences in these buildings besides sealing unauthorized portions.The Committee has requested CMDA to address the government in taking up suitable amendment in the Electricity Board Act and Metro Water Act to make Completion Certificate for special buildings.
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