DC impact: HMDA issues notices to 51 architects

HMDA officials claimed that they will be blacklisted, if found guilty. This follows a report in these columns on January 16.

Update: 2018-01-22 02:07 GMT
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority's ambitious land pooling initiative at different places in the city's outskirts is yet to take off as the body is still awaiting government approval.

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority has issued notices to 51 architects for submitting faulty plans to property owners to gain benefits under the Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS) and in gaining building permissions.

HMDA officials claimed that they will be blacklisted, if found guilty. This follows a report in these columns on January 16.

HMDA commissioner T. Chiranjeevulu said that it had come to their notice that the licenced architects were uploading incomplete or faulty layouts in order to get approval under LRS. 

Due to this, the HMDA had been rejecting applications. He said the architects had been indulging in discrepancies whch was resulting in property owners having to do the rounds of the HMDA office.

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