The Hindu 01.07.2011

39 more buildings found violating bylaws

Staff Correspondent

In a fresh survey conducted to identify buildings of educational institutions and community halls constructed in violation of building bylaws, the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) has identified 39 such buildings.

In a survey conducted earlier, corporation officials had identified 200 buildings of educational institutions and 15 kalyanmantaps as having violated building bylaws.

The HDMC commissioner K.V. Trilok Chandra had ordered the survey after the issue was raised at the general body meeting of the corporation, and councillors cutting across party lines had demanded that no educational institution that had violated the bylaws should be spared. Subsequently, the officials had identified the 215 buildings. While most of the educational institutions had not taken building permission to construct the school buildings, some of them had not applied for completion certificates after construction. The same applied to the 15 kalyanmantaps. He said notices had been issued to educational institutions and building owners to produce documents if it was the case that they had paid the requisite fees to the corporation earlier.