GHMC TO TAKE SATELLITE HELP TO GET BRS LIST

Directed by the High Court to scrutinise the 1.39 lakh Building Regularisation Scheme applications, the GHMC has asked the National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) to provide it satellite images of all the 1.39 lakh buildings in the BRS list.

Mr K. Srinivas Rao, GHMC director, planning, said that the satellite images will be handed over to the Centre for Good Governance (CGG) to match with the photographs submitted by the owners when they applied for BRS.

If any unauthorised construction was found, the application would be set aside and action initiated. He said as of now the corporation officials were busy disposing of applications for the land regularisation scheme.

He said that after the applicants apply under the BRS, they cannot take up further constructions on the same building till their cases are disposed off. It has, however, come to the notice of the GHMC that many owners have built additional floors after submitting BRS applications.

Mr Srinivas said that the GHMC would identify these violations through satellite images.

Asked about scrutinising BRS applications, he said that the corporation had already checked a few manually. Following instructions of the GHMC commissioner, the corporation had been collecting property tax for additional floors constructed after the BPS applications.