GY CORRESPONDENT
jammu, apr 05
Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has badly failed to take decisive action against illegal construction and commercialization of residential areas in Municipal areas. Due to the pressure from people having close political connections the illegal transformation is going on with impunity while the enforcement agencies are turning a blind eye towards the unlawful activities. Despite law passed against such violations, JMC has failed to stop conversion of residential colonies into commercial spaces, which has led to chaos in many areas in the urban centres.
To put things in perspective, JMC Encroachment staff particularly Enforcement Inspector Pranav Jamwal openly allowing unauthorized commercial construction on Government land opposite Police Naka Janipura Police station in Ward-66 below high tension Electric wires which needs need immediate demolition. Despite making several appeals before concerned JMC Enforcement staff deputed in Ward-66, nothing has been done and unauthorized commercial construction without getting site plan approved from JMC going on raising question mark on working of JMC.
It deserves mentioning here that within the Municipal limits of the city, there are several residential buildings illegally converted into commercial centres in violation of the Jammu Master Plan 2032 and J&K Control of Building Operation Act-1988 when law says that for converting any category of land and building into a commercial one, proper permission has to be taken from the competent authority as defined in revenue laws, but in the city most of the people are violating the set rules.The Gandhi Nagar, Trikuta Nagar, Channi Himmat and Shastri Nagar areas are on the top of the list where hundreds of violations of conversion of residential houses into commercial buildings have been detected. Similar cases could be found in other colonies.
Jammu Municipal Corporation has badly failed to exercise its powers with respect to unauthorized construction in Municipal areas. In some cases permissions have been obtained for construction and reconstruction of residential use and in the process structures have been raised much in violation of the sanctioned permission and use other than permitted by the competent authorities. In some cases permissions have been obtained for construction and reconstruction of residential use and in the process structures have been raised much in violation of the sanctioned permission and use other than permitted by the competent authorities.
