Hyderabad: To ensure govt land and prohibited land parcels are not regularised under the Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS), the municipal administration and urban development has issued procedural guidelines for the disposal of applications and also provided a 25% rebate in the LRS penal amount.
Director of Town and Country Planning and Member (Planning) of the municipal administration department, M Devender Reddy, said the Centre for Good Governance (CGG) has already prepared software for the disposal of the LRS applications.
In a memo, the govt stated that municipal commissioners, the GHMC commissioner, and vice chairmen and metropolitan commissioner of HMDA and other urban development authorities would identify the survey numbers within 200 metres of water bodies and lakes and send the information to the CGG. The CGG would then forward them to the irrigation and revenue department for scrutiny and field inspection. If any applicants seek LRS near water bodies and lakes, the application would not be processed by the software.
Similarly, the commissioners, GHMC, and urban development authorities, HMDA, and other municipal bodies would identify the survey numbers adjacent to the existing govt land parcels and send details to CGG. These would be verified by the revenue department, and field inspection will also be conducted before processing them.
“The LRS applications, other than those, will be verified either by municipal and panchayat raj departments in their respective areas. In addition, applications sent to irrigation and revenue departments will be processed based on the recommendations of both departments,” the guidelines stated.
In cases where the LRS applications do not fall in the category of prohibited land and water bodies within 200 metres of FTL, the provisional LRS application fee would be automatically generated and informed to the applicants. After receipt of the payment, officials would do a site visit and regularisation proceedings will be issued, the municipal administration department said.
“If the application is rejected, the amount paid will be refunded with a deduction of 10% of the amount paid towards processing charges,” the govt stated. To avail the 25% rebate, applicants must pay the entire amount before March 21, including pro-rata open space charges.
For applying for LRS for unapproved layouts, citizens should submit the information in the prescribed format as provided by the LRS online link for registration of unregistered plots, which are part of unauthorised layouts where 10% of plots were already sold through registered sale deeds on or before the cut-off date of Aug 26, 2020, at the competent sub-registrar.
