Merged villages to undergo city survey

Pune, April 17: THREE years from now, residents of 23 merged villages will have their names on property cards and also have maps of their properties. This will be courtsey the office of the settlement commissioner and director of land records and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) that are all set to launch the city survey in June.

Addressing a press conference, settlement commissioner and director of land records, T C Benjamin said the city survey exercise will be carried out with the help of Geographic Processing System and Electronic Total System and will be completed in a year’s time. “Another two years will be taken by the city survey officers to carry out the verifications,” he said.

Benjamin said the PMC has been given a fixed time graph during which survey process should be completed. According to the plan, tender notices should be given by April 20 and by May 31 the agency should be finalised to undertake the survey. The actual work will begin from June 1.

As of now citizens will not be required to pay for the city survey, however at the time of getting the certificate (sanat) the owner of the property will have to pay a minimal amount to the PMC.

While the 23 villages were merged in the PMC limits in 1997 there was no city survey in these areas as a result of which their growth and development was haphazard. “People were not aware till what limit their property was since they did not possess the maps. Acquiring a building permission from the PMC would also be a problem,” he said.

City survey exercise will also be launched soon in the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation which has 14 merged villages, said Benjamin.

Contouring on cards
Benjamin said that he has recommended the PMC to also undertake the contouring process. “There are hill-tops and hill-slopes in the merged villages and there is always a problem of allowing building permission on the HT-HS zones. To avoid this, physical measurement of the HT-HS should be made,” he said.

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