-GURUGRAM: The department of town and country planning (DTCP) has initiated action against 11 illegally-constructed buildings in Palam Vihar‘s C2 block, ordering that their water, sewer and electricity connections be cut off.
Each 500 sq yd plot, originally meant to have a single housing unit per floor, has as many as 16 unauthorised flats. District town planner (enforcement) Manish Yadav has written to the MCG commissioner, GMDA executive engineer and DHBVN requesting the disconnections. The tehsildar has also been instructed to halt any further registration of these properties.
“All three departments have been instructed to take immediate action, and our enforcement office is actively working on the necessary measures,” Yadav said.
The case is currently pending in the Punjab and Haryana high court, following a petition by the Palam Vihar C2 Block RWA and other locals. Residents also took to the streets over the issue, after which the petition was submitted before HC.
DTCP has named specific plots — 913, 1310, 921, 1251, 924, 979B, 956, 1226, 922, 935, and 951 — in the letters to the relevant authorities. It had also filed police complaints against several building owners for similar illegal constructions in the past. Some building owners allegedly illegally de-sealed their properties, prompting the department to take further sealing action and recommend additional FIRs.
Residents have expressed concern about the impact of these illegal constructions on basic infrastructure in the area. Where only one unit per floor is permitted, the property owners constructed four to six units per floor. In alleged collusion with tehsil officials, these properties were registered and water and electricity connections issued, they said.
