The authorities plan to eliminate the illegal villa and the officials involved are now on the state’s radar.
According to officials, some local elected representatives were also allegedly behind these unauthorized structures and collected huge amount from the firms.
The issue of these unauthorized structures came to the fore recently following complaints that villas were being built on the FTL lake. When Medchal district in-charge Collector S Harish ordered an inquiry, it was found that more than 200 villas out of 260 did not have the requisite permissions.
Sources in the municipal administration and panchayat raj department said that these illegal villas were built in 150 square yards and the firms claimed to have taken permission from the gram panchayat/municipality.
Officials suspect copies of permission have been backdated
But official inquiries revealed that only 60 villas had permission from the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) and the Dundigal municipality. The rest were illegal constructions.
Interestingly, some had submitted copies of the permission from the gram panchayat and claimed that they had got the permission before its merger with the Dundigal municipality in 2018. But officials suspect that the copies of the permission are dated. “Permissions were not entered in the register of Mallampet panchayat or the amount collected for adjusted permission fee in its account. Further, panchayats do not have the power to grant permission for construction of villas or gated communities,” said a senior official of Is.” the inspection.
Municipal administration department director N Satyanarayana told TOI on Wednesday: “Teams have been formed by Medchal district additional collector (local bodies) to bulldoze all illegal houses and recommend action against municipal commissioners and panchayat secretaries. under whose period the villa was built.”
The officials against whom action has been recommended include Panchayat secretary Raj Kumar and Sunita, who neither recorded the permissions in the register nor deposited the fee in the panchayat accounts. Action has also been demanded against the then Dundigal Nagar Pramukh Jyothi Reddy, A Suresh, MNR Jyothi and the current commissioner P Bhogishwarlu for not checking the permissions and preventing illegal construction after the panchayat merged with the municipality.
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