Author: Golden Yug

Owner on his own started unauthorized renovation of existing shop on ground floor and residential house on first floor by enhancing area of shop by extending gallery and even removing existing entry gate on RCC pillars to convert it into full-fledged commercial structure Surprisingly JMC has so far taken no action against owner when from one month this unauthorized construction is going on what to think of serving owner any BOCA notices when enforcement staff is hand in glove with owner in raising unauthorized construction GY CORRESPONDENT jammu, oct 3 Talla Jewellers Pvt Ltd. Gandhi Nagar. 4 A/B, Gandhi Nagar,…

Mayor busy in Bhrashtachar Mukt J&K’ campaign, JMC enforcement staff crossing all limits of corruption and impropriety in public affairs by deliberately closing its eyes & ears by getting their pockets filled through unfair means at cost of JMP-2032 and Unified Building Bye-laws 2021 Suneesh Gupta r/o Gandhi Nagar Jammu owner of residential plot No. 325-A, Gandhi Nagar Jammu on Apsara Road ,opposite Govt Higher Secondary School ,Gandhi Nagar measuring 45×65 (2700) Sqft converting his residential house into full-fledged commercial by converting residential house into six big shops on ground floor and six more on first floor by suitably fixing…

JMC changes definition of residential stilt floor which is a partially covered parking space on the ground floor of a commercial or residential building. Its height ranges from 2.4 m to 2.7m. A stilt floor is supported by pillars with all four sides open, it usually contains a generator room, switch room, society & information room, etc by allowing residential house instead of stilt floor residential Owner successfully completed ground floor residential house instead of stilt floor residential but JMC didn’t take any action against owner and surprisingly despite all this , granted stage 2nd approved site plan in favour…

Then Enforcement Officer Anil Kashyap and Enforcement Inspector Jasbir Singh visited site but didn’t report violations after striking handsome deal with owner to extend unfair help to owner to continue commercial construction on residential plot since March 2023 onwards against approved site plan which was continued by newly posted Enforcement Inspector Ram Khajuria from July 2023 Commissioner JMC should order an enquiry into this as to how owner managed to raise commercial halls against residential approved site plan on three floors without maintaining setbacks and also when at present construction of Mumty is going on, why JMC so far hasn’t…

Illegal construction of commercial hall by encroaching Yogi Gate Shamshan Ghat was demolished on the direction of then Commissioner JMC Avny Lavassa, under the supervision of Joint Commissioner Ashish Gupta along with police contingent which was raised during the tenure of the then JMC Commissioner Pankaj Magotra Former Mayor Narinder Singh Raju had lodged FIR before Anti Corruption Bureau vide No.JKACB/Per/02-20 dated 17-8-2020 over illegal construction and encroachment of Yogi Gate Shamshan Ghat but nothing was done in this regard Sewa Samiti-the custodian of all cremation grounds in Jammu has started construction of shops at Jogi Gate along the roadside…

Revenue section of JMC having connivance with contractor nearly 3 crores amount though unofficially deposited few pockets but not deposited in JMC exchequer but concerned higher authorities are still mum over this Mayor Rajinder Sharma dated 10-5-2023 had admitted that Rs 56 crores has been embezzled in JMC in last 10 years but so far no enquiry ordered, no one held responsible which proves mere public stunt on part of Mayor Mayor JMC should tell Jammuites why no action was taken against Brite Neon Private Ltd for violating contract and causing loss worth crores to JMC exchequer and why no…

Then Commissioner JMC M Raju on August 8th 2017 sealed the premises for making land use change without permission of JMC. The building remained sealed up to 2022, however during tenure of then Commissioner JMC Avny Lavasa, the owner moved an applicaltion requesting to de-seal his premises and also owner also submitted an affedavit to JMC solemnizing that in no case he will use his premises for commercial purposes and will only use it for purely residential purposes but didn’t abide by affedavit. JMC on the basis of written undertaking that owner will use his premises for residential purposes, JMC…

Owner while applying afresh site plan claimed that she has already constructed ground floor shop by covering 300 Sqft which is total area at the site but in reality upto 9-9-2023, there was only steel rods hanging without cement, sand and gravel but started construction on 10-9-2023 knowing well that under JMP-2032 and Unified Building Bye-laws 2021 she is only entitled 70 % construction and mandatory to leave 30% towards front side for parking purposes within premises Owner getting no approval for afresh approved site plan from JMC and also no NOC from Housing Board with help of enforcement staff…

It is surprising to note that when JMC didn’t provide any permission for residential construction how owner managed to raise ground floor without maintaining setbacks and why JMC so far JMC hasn’t served any BOCA notices to owner, why Enforcement Inspector deputed in ward-50 not taken to task for not reporting construction without JMC permission JMC should remember that J&K Development Act, 1970 vide Section 13 clearly provides that no person including the department of the govt shall undertake or carry out development of any land or building in any zone unless permission for such development has been obtained in…

JMC to save their skin under huge public pressure served owner BOCA notice under section 7 (1) dated 6-7-2023 nearly after one year since start of construction projecting huge violations of 42.40% on ground Floor , 67.88% on first floor, 28.35% 2nd floor and owner also didn’t maintain mandatory setbacks particularly rear which was supposed to left 4.7 mtr but owner left 1.3 mtr thus making violation of 72.34% besides violations in height as 3.71% Violations as mentioned in notice under 7(1) vide No. JMC/CEO/33/01/23 dated 6-7-2023 were much higher than projected by JMC as there was no deliberate mention…