Wednesday, 25 December 2013

MMRDA Recover Rs 8.12 Crore from Adarsh Society


Maharastra Chief Minister who is Chairman of  Special Planning Body MMRDA has recovered Rs 8.12 Crore  from Disputed Adarsh Society under various heads and was aware of the stages of the building's construction. In which Rs 40 Lakhs is penalty  it for regularising its 28th floor construction. If MMRDA before  issue  Commecment Certificate (CC) check all doucments then Adarsh Society never constructed, Blame Anil Galgali who access this information through RTI.

RTI queries by activist Anil Galgali reveal that MMRDA collected money from the society under various heads and was aware of the stages of the building's construction. Even as skeletons continue to  tumble out of the Adarsh closet, it has now come to the fore that the MMRDA has also made a substantial amount from the South Mumbai building and collected nearly Rs 8.12 crore from it in the form of various charges. The development charges, staircase and lift premium and scrutiny fees were charged as per norms before the Adarsh project started.

Government of Maharastra under memordum dated 18 Jan 2003 a land situated at  BBR Block 6 which is under possession of Army  admesuring  3758.72 square metre give to Adarsh Society for Rs 10,19,19,752  and a land use by BEST which is admesuring 2669.68 Square Metre for Rs 6,14,02,640. Adarsh Society after paid total Rs 16,33,222,92 ask for commecment certificate from MMRDA to start construction. MMRDA 3 Metropolitan Commissioner's Dr Suresh Joshi, Dr T Chandrashekhar & Ratankar  Gaikwad  issues CC time to time and final  OC issues  on 16 September 2010 by Ratankar Gaikwad. The Adarsh building falls under the Backbay scheme wherein the municipal commissioner has designated MMRDA as the special planning authority. The said amount that MMRDA has levied is for use of FSI, lift, lobby and other amenities.
According to Anil Galgali, now after rejection of Adarsh Commission Report & scam, he felt that the role of MMRDA needed to be probed by Chief Minister himself because he is chairman of MMRDA. It now seems that MMRDA, the special planning authority, knew about the various stages of construction of the Adarsh society building.  Moreover, MMRDA withdrew the Occupation Certificate (OC) issued to the building in haste soon after the scam grabbed media attention and Ashok Chavan had to resign from the post of Chief Minister.Then MMRDA withdrew the OC as per the instructions of the Urban development department.

When asked whether MMRDA was aware of the illegalities in Adarsh by Anil Galgali , as fees was collected at regular intervals, the officer clarified that the development charges, staircase and lift premium, and scrutiny fees, etc was charged as per norms before the project started. Adarsh paid a huge penalty to it for regularising its 28th floor construction. Interesting that OC issued by Additional Metropolitan Commissioner SVR Srinivas under guideness Ratankar Gaikwad get reward there mistake. Gaikwad get first promotion as Chief Secartary and now Chief Information Commissioner and Srinivas deputed at BMC Additional Municipal Commissioner. If MMRDA scrtunize the doucments properly then Adarsh never built,say Galgali.

### Fees charged by MMRDA

Development charges:
Rs 15,13,435

Staircase, lift, lift lobby and passage premium:
Rs 7,22,26,754

Balcony enclosure fees:
Rs 33,42,000

Scrutiny fees: Rs 1,24,012

Penalty: Rs 39,74,235

Total: Rs 8,11,80,436

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