Hyderabad: The building regularisation scheme (BRS), announced by the Telangana government in November 2015, is back in focus.
The Telangana state government has issued directions to all local bodies to vet the BRS applications and submit the list of buildings which are fit for regularisation and demolition by conducting ground level inspections.
The government will submit the details of the buildings to the High Court which are eligible for the BRS and will ask the court to clear the cases of the buildings meant for demolition. The government received 3 lakh applications, of which 1.40 lakh are from the GHMC limit.
The High Court issued a stay order in December 2015 following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against the BRS due to which the scheme was halted. The court allowed the government to receive only the applications and directed it not to regularise till it delivers the judgment. Under this, the government received the applications till March 2015 and kept them pending.
Anxious building owners are making rounds to the municipal offices to know the fate of their applications. The government has collected '2,500 crore from applicants.
Officials in the municipal department said that the scrutinisation is taken up under the High Court order, issued last month to identify the buildings which are fit for regularisation or demolition.
“The municipal administration has issued the order to all municipal commissioners to submit the list of buildings. It asked officials to mark the buildings on lake beds, service roads and nalas in the demolition list. The list of exact number of buildings which are fit for regularisation and demolition will be known after the scrutiny.
