Minutes of the 54th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee Held on 21.08.2015 at 4.30 PM in Main Conference Hall of CMDA
The Monitoring Committee of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority issued these minutes for its 54th meeting held on 21 August 2015. The minutes record clarifications about an institutional development at Chikkarayapuram Village and decisions on whether several flats at 42 Mahalakshmi Street, T. Nagar, Chennai, were completed before 28 February 1999 for possible regularisation.
What the minutes cover
The Minutes of the 54th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority record decisions taken at the meeting held on 21 August 2015. They cover a planning clarification concerning an institutional building and several individual flat regularisation cases.
Institutional development at Chikkarayapuram
The Monitoring Committee of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority considered questions about planning permission for an institutional building proposed by Sri Muthukumaran Educational Trust at Chikkarayapuram Village, Kundrathur Main Road, Chennai.
The committee recorded the following clarifications:
- The land reclassification was carried out under statutory provisions.
- Government approval for the multi-storeyed building development was also given under statutory provisions.
- The decision was taken under section 113 of the Town and Country Planning Act.
- The decision was not taken under the regularisation scheme framed under section 113-A of the Town and Country Planning Act.
Flats at Mahalakshmi Street
The Monitoring Committee of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority examined individual flats in the ground floor plus two-floor residential building at old Door No. 22, new Door No. 42, Mahalakshmi Street, T. Nagar, Chennai, in Survey No. 6031, Block No. 134 of Mambalam Village.
Key findings included:
- Flats 7, 4 and 3 were accepted as having been completed before 28 February 1999, based on Chennai Corporation property tax records.
- Flats 8, 5, 2 and 1 were accepted as having been completed before 28 February 1999 using evidence relating to Flat 7 and the physical relationship between the flats.
- For Flat 8, the committee also considered consecutive property tax receipt numbers, equal tax amounts and approximately similar built-up areas for Flats 7 and 8.
- For Flats 7, 4, 8, 5 and 2, regularisation could be considered subject to reassessment and payment of property tax arrears based on the actual floor area, along with the usual conditions, applicable charges and fees.
Who may be affected
The minutes directly concern Sri Muthukumaran Educational Trust and the identified flats at 42 Mahalakshmi Street. Buyers or owners of those flats should note that the committee accepted evidence of the completion date, but the recorded decisions also require further property tax reassessment and other regularisation conditions in the cases where those requirements are stated.
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Common questions
Do these minutes regularise every flat at 42 Mahalakshmi Street automatically?
No. The Monitoring Committee recorded findings for specific flats and stated in several cases that regularisation may be considered subject to property tax reassessment, payment of arrears, usual conditions, applicable charges and fees.
What evidence was accepted to show that the flats existed before 28 February 1999?
The Monitoring Committee accepted Chennai Corporation property tax assessment records and working sheets. For some flats, it also relied on the accepted evidence for Flat 7 because of the flats' positions within the same building.
Was the Chikkarayapuram institutional development approved under a regularisation scheme?
No. The minutes clarify that the decision was taken under section 113 of the Town and Country Planning Act, not under the regularisation scheme framed under section 113-A.
Must property tax arrears be paid before regularisation is considered?
For Flats 7, 4, 8, 5 and 2, the minutes state that regularisation may be considered subject to reassessment and payment of property tax arrears based on the actual floor area, together with other usual conditions, charges and fees.
