Now even 2 cents of land owners can construct house - MUDA President

Now even 2 cents of land owners can construct house - MUDA President

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Feb 25, 2012: Ramesh S., the president of the Mangalore Urban Development Authority (MUDA), said that the Comprehensive Development Plan, which was enforced from 1992 to Oct 1, 2009, allowed construction of houses and other structures, but a revised Master Plan II was introduced in 2009, which allows anybody who owns two cents of land to construct a house, leaving a 3m wide path.

 

 

The MUDA president made the above statement in response to allegations that the poor were not permitted to construct houses in Mangalore. Addressing reporters at a press conference held on Feb 25 Saturday, he said that land owners under MUDA limits can construct their own houses and urged those with confusions to approach the MUDA office in Urwa Stores, Ashoknagar to get the required details.

Declaring that the MUDA, a non profit body, completed 25 years on Dec 5, 2011, he said that the state government has appointed him as its president, with Sharatchandra Shetty, technical expert Suresh Rao, advocate M. Sudhakar Joshi, advocate M. Surekha, advocate Kasthuri Punja, and others as its members.

He further said that nearly 75 percent of the files have been cleared in two and half months after he took over as the president of MUDA. Most of the applications received by MUDA are single-site applications, he said, adding that steps will be taken from March 1 to clear all pending files under the single-site housing project within the next fortnight.

Speaking on Master Plan II, he said that it has been designed to meet the ever-growing demands of a developing city with a fast-increasing population. Construction work damaging to the surroundings and the beauty of the city will not be permitted. Stating that the fish market near State Bank of India was set up without permission, he said that this market will soon be shifted.

Regarding the large number of high-rise structures under construction in Mangalore, he said that MCC is the body that licenses these structures, not the MUDA. Further explaining, he said that the licenses were given by MCC under CDP and that the MUDA is concerned only with development activities. He also said that Master Plan II does not permit illegal high-rise structures and that the MUDA can demolish such structures any time.

Proposed projects such as the multi-level car parking project in Hampankatta, Kavoor, Suratkal, Pumpwell, Urwa Stores, and Kankanady will be launched within the next six months, he assured.

Further, he said that the MUDA will instruct the MCC to construct 3m-wide footpaths along the city’s main roads, besides encouraging the construction of development colonies.

He also urged families dividing ancestral land to first meet the MUDA and take its advice and suggestions so that the partition does not create problems in future.