| External development charges paid by colonisers and builders to the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) are likely to be transferred to the yet-to-be-constituted Greater Mohali Development Authority.
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| The decision will be finalised in a meeting on April 28, to be chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.
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| Senior PUDA officials said that on the pattern of the Greater Noida Urban Development Authority, the Punjab government was working on constituting the Greater Mohali Development Authority.
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| Till date, external development charges, amounting to Rs 45 crore (according to PUDA officials), payable within the framework of the Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation Act, 1995, have not been utilised.
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| Criticising the PUDA for charging fees per acre as external development charges without carrying out the mandatory development works, the Punjab Colonisers and Builders Association has decided to take up the issue with the Punjab chief minister.
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| The president of the Punjab Colonisers and Builders Association, Kulwant Singh, said PUDA after collecting Rs 100 crore did not execute the mandatory external development works to connect colonies with the mainstream.
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| According to him as per the agreement, the PUDA was supposed to carry out external development works, including laying drainage and sewerage lines and ensuring potable water supply, roads and electricity connections.
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| "Dilapidated roads, traffic jams, power cuts, absence of a proper sewage have compelled us to take this step," Singh said while adding that that the fragile infrastructure of the state would hamper the development of the city.
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| Currently the external development charges vary according to the location where development of a colony or a housing project comes.
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| Giving detail Singh informed that in the category A, which is within 15 km of municipal corporation limited the coloniser has to give Rs 3.5 lakh per acre. Category B constitutes an area 5 sq km of the municipal committee where in the devlopers and coloniser has to pay Rs 2.5 lakh per acre. Further development within 5 km from the periphery of towns and cities will be charged Rs 1.5 lkah per acre. |
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