The Jharkhand Urban Development and Housing Department has prepared a draft plan to regularize unauthorized residential buildings which were constructed before December 31, 2019 in urban areas of the state, an official said on Sunday. To make this plan simple and effective, the department has sought suggestions and feedback from people on this for one month, an official statement said. ”Chief minister Hemant Soren as minister of the department has given his nod to the ‘Plan-2022’ to regularize the unauthorized residential building in urban areas. The process of giving benefit of it to the people will be initiated soon,” the statement said. Earlier, the government had introduced the Jharkhand Regularization of Unauthorized\Deviated Constructions through Regularization Fee in Urban Areas Act, 2011, to regularize the unauthorized constructions by realizing a certain fee. However, it received a very lukewarm response from citizens. In Ranchi, merely 893 applications had been received by the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) in the period of six months from February 8 to August 8, 2012 that had been given to the city residents for regularization of their houses. A survey of RMC had then found that out of 1.96 houses in the state capital, only 40,000 houses were authorized. According to a rough estimation of urban development department, number of unauthorized constructions will be around seven lakh in state.
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