Author: Golden Yug

Owner contrary to approved site plan didn’t construct porch and verandah and covered hundred percent area without maintaining setbacks neither from front side nor from backside and whatever little left by owner has been compensate by extending galleries on ground floor and first floor both in equal size Owner paid building fee for permissible construction area but covered hundred percent plot area which caused serious loss to JMC exchequer and major dent to JMP-2032 and Unified Building Bye-laws 2021 GY CORRESPONDENT jammu, may 26 J&K Housing Board was established in March, 1976 by virtue of Jammu & Kashmir Housing Board…

Violation of setbacks by owner resulted in blockade of ventilation and sunlight of adjoining residential houses which is gross violation of their fundamental rights who have been unnecessarily made to suffer by owner by covering maximum area from backside Owner was mandatory to observe setbacks including Front 18 ft but left 14 ft but extended 4 ft gallery having no mention of any such gallery in site plan, side-1, 6.5 Ft, Rear (Backside) 6.5 ft with height of building 36.5 ft but none of setbacks observed making land use change Owner also produced an undertaking before JMC during approval of…

When conversion from residential to commercial going on at residential plot 3A/B Gandhi Nagar, then Enforcement Inspector Rattan Lal did not take any action against owner despite several complaints were made by locals and neighbors as a result of which Showroom started functioning Earlier BOCA notice under section 7(1) was served to owner for violating land use of building from residential to commercial which is contravention of Zoning regulation of the area and planned development of Jammu city even then construction continued which is matter of investigation Surprisingly JMC in this regard did not release any press note that Jeweller…

Enforcement Inspector deputed in Ward-45 had visited site and as an eyewash action stopped ongoing unauthorized construction for the time being but meantime owner was told that this violated construction is already in notice of Commissioner JMC and guiding owner to complete ongoing construction swiftly by working overtime Initially the owner raised two big shops at ground floor by properly putting up Iron Shutter and later fully supported and encouraged by JMC enforcement staff deputed in the area has started commercial construction on first floor without maintaining setbacks and without JMC permission One Tarun Sharma has brought this violated construction…

Enforcement Inspector’s patronage to owner helps him to raise violated first and 2nd floor on existing violated ground floor at residential plot No. 397, Sector-5 Channi Himmat . Even high level team visited site on direction of Commissioner JMC didn’t report any violation even after lapse of more than a month what to think of serving any BOCA notices to owner The owner was permitted only 55% construction area which becomes 1900 Sqft a floor besides owner was mandatory to observe setbacks but the owner raised first and 2nd floors nearly 2900 Sqft without maintaining setbacks particularly backside and sides…

Owner didn’t start construction after getting site plan approved from JMC till first week of March 2023 when he started plinth work but by then the validity of approved site plan had lapsed and didn’t get fresh site plan approved from JMC as per Unified Building Bye-laws 2021 owner violated setbacks by leaving front 12 ft against 15 ft, backside 3 ft against 6.5 ft and left nothing on either side of plot and as a result of which the owner occupied 2600 Sqft area on ground and first floor each and also raised construction on Porch besides extending galleries…

Building Section team found violation of 106 Sqft which was in addition to ownership right of owner as area under construction was 750 Sqft, 300 Sqft violations in stilt, first,2nd and third floors(66.6%) against allowed 450 Sqft each. With regard to maintaining setbacks, the owner made 100 % violations towards front side against 10.25 ft and height violated by 2.44%, FAR violated by 43.12% Owner didn’t construct stilt floor on the basis of which the owner was allowed an extra floor and instead the owner converted the stilt floor into Laboratory, lift and stairs by putting big iron gate toward…

Secretary JMC & Incharge BOCA Authority Channi Himmat while replying to RTI Application filed in this regard vide No. JMC/CEO/68-69 dated 28-4-2023 claimed attaching violations reports but these violations reports were nor relevant and didn’t pertain to site ¾ Channi Himmat and thus openly proving her patronage to owner JMC didn’t take any action against owner after serving statutory notice to owner and after taking undertaking that owner will not raise commercial construction and will raise construction only as per approved site plan and as a result of which the owner constructed three violated floors without observing mandatory setbacks GY…

Mohinder Singh owner of Housing Board residential plot 542/3 Channi Himmat Jammu already facing trials from Housing Board/JMC for sheer breach of lease deed and land use change from residential to commercial Enforcement Inspector Jasbir Singh who was duty bound to submit violations report was infect helping and supporting owner to raise big three shops covering hundred percent area without maintaining setbacks GY CORRESPONDENT jammu, may 9 Jammu Municipal Corporation has totally failed to curve illegal and unauthorized constructions of buildings and other structures which not only violate the Municipal laws and the concept of planned development of the particular…

All these four residential site plans were wrongly approved by showing approach road width as 4.87 mtr (16 ft) whereas under JMP-2032 and Unified Building Bye-laws the approach shouldn’t be less than 20 ft and also when there is only thorough passage for villagers measuring nearly 10ft Chief Enforcement officer, Zone-V in his reply to RTI application filed in this regard said that owners of all four plots have raised construction of first and 2nd stage as per approved site plans conveniently ignoring serious violations including land use change from residential to commercial Then Enforcement Inspector Varun Kesar deputed in…