Minutes of the 20th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee Held on 22/8/2007
The Monitoring Committee of CMDA recorded these minutes for its twentieth meeting, held on 22 August 2007. The committee authorised further work on an Action Taken Report and High Court affidavit, and accepted evidence that specified institutional buildings in Egmore had been completed before 28 February 1999.
What the minutes cover
The Minutes of the 20th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee Held on 22/8/2007 record a meeting held at 3.30 p.m. in the CMDA conference hall. The recorded business included a proposed Action Taken Report for the High Court, completion certificate progress, and regularisation matters involving specific buildings in Egmore.
These minutes mainly document committee procedure and a finding about one identified property. They do not set out a general approval, fee, rate or new process for all properties.
High Court filing
The Monitoring Committee discussed a draft Action Taken Report intended to be filed in the High Court. Members made suggestions during the discussion.
The committee decided to:
- Authorise the Vice-Chairman of CMDA and Dr. A. Srivatsan, a member of the Monitoring Committee, to finalise the Action Taken Report using the points discussed.
- Circulate the finalised report by email for members' approval.
- Authorise the Vice-Chairman of CMDA to file the affidavit in the High Court.
- Require a copy of the affidavit to be placed at the next Monitoring Committee meeting.
Egmore institutional property
The Monitoring Committee considered regularisation of unauthorised or deviated construction at Door Nos. 32-33, Casa Major Road, Egmore, and Survey No. 471/42, Block No. 30, Egmore Village.
The property comprised:
- One block with ground floor, mezzanine floor and three upper floors.
- One block with ground floor and two upper floors.
- One ground-floor garage building.
The committee accepted that the institutional buildings had been completed before 28 February 1999. It treated a Chennai Corporation approved plan, PP No. 37/79 dated 8 June 1979, and a CMDA inspection report dated 5 March 2002 as reasonably conclusive evidence. The inspection report recorded that the buildings were more than ten years old.
Other agenda items
The Monitoring Committee agenda also listed confirmation of the nineteenth meeting's minutes, action taken on those minutes, an Enforcement Cell progress report on completion certificates, and regularisation of a ground floor plus four-floor hotel and lodge at Door No. 32, Hall Road, Egmore, Chennai 8. The supplied minutes do not record a decision on these listed matters.
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Common questions
Do these minutes create a general regularisation approval for properties in Chennai?
No general approval is recorded. The stated finding concerns specified institutional buildings at Door Nos. 32-33, Casa Major Road, Egmore.
What evidence was accepted for the Casa Major Road buildings?
The Monitoring Committee accepted Chennai Corporation approved plan PP No. 37/79 dated 8 June 1979 and CMDA's inspection report dated 5 March 2002 as reasonably conclusive evidence.
What did the committee conclude about the age of the Egmore institutional buildings?
The Monitoring Committee accepted that the buildings had been completed before 28 February 1999. The CMDA inspection report also recorded that they were more than ten years old.
Was a decision recorded for the hotel and lodge at Hall Road, Egmore?
The regularisation of the ground floor plus four-floor hotel and lodge was listed as an agenda item. The supplied text does not record a decision on it.
