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Respected Raghu Sir, ********** **********. Just now i had a chance to watch you on Kutch Samachar. Had almost lost ********** in Indian System before a few minutes after what myself, my family and other residents of

Reported on January 11, 2011 from Bangalore , Karnataka  ι Report #33877


I am sorry, I was not able to respond earlier to your story. In ideal circumstances, every city is to prepare a comprehensive development plan (CDP), with participation of the people and after much public consultation. This plan is to designate areas into zones and then enforce this plan. We in India do things differently. We make the plan without much consultation. Then we notify it and ignore it. Why does this happen? This is because decision making on zoning is done by the BHADA, which is a nominated body and is not accountable to people through their representatives.



In most cities, there are no strict rules prohibiting conversion of a residential plot to that of  commercial activity. To get a commercial license all one needs  is a No-objection Certificate (NOC) from neighbours, owners consent letter, tax paid receipt and khata extract. At the time of granting of trade license there is no investigation done. As long as the person declares it as commercial property and pays tax the BHADA (or the Municipality) usually does not  have any issue.



The Municipality can cancel or suspend any license granted if it is of opinion that the licence conditions have been violated.  However, whether it will take action accordingly is anybody's guess.In such circumstances, there seems to be no nswer except to organise a strong protest by involving all the neighbours. Please file RTI applications to obtain copies of the licence given to the party. Please check whether the neighbours consent has been taken in the first place. If not, you have a very strong case to insist upon the licence to be withdrawn.



I would suggest that you file court proceedings under Section 133 (relating to removal of public nuisance) of the CrPC, before the District Collector. It will also be useful if you file cases against the offending parties before the Pollution Control Board at the State level.

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Respected Raghu Sir, Jai Hind. Just now i had a chance to watch you on Kutch Samachar. Had almost lost faith in Indian System before a few minutes after what myself, my family and other residents of Lotus Colony, Bhuj are facing. But after watching you a ray of hope has enlightened my heart. Proud to have an Indian like you. We the residents of Lotus colony are in a great trouble created by around 35 Hospitals which have been working in illegal manner in an around 6 mts. lanes. The latest hospital built next to our house is of Dr. Nirmala Sharma who has falsely obtained the permission from BHADA with a bribe of around 15 Lakhs given to BHADA CEO and other officers. The lane on which she has built a huge gynecological hospital is of only 6 mts. on which any such construction is not permit able. She has also violated mostly all other construction laws. Our fight against this began around 10th November,2010 and a case against her in the collect-orate. But till today nothing has been done despite of our continuous visits. We had even applied in BHADA for the copies of the completion and other such papers which were denied to us on the ground that they cannot be given to you without the doctors permission, so before 2 days we have applied for them under RTI. The most shocking thing experienced by us was that though we have kept on visiting again and again asking for justice to collector till to date no proceedings have been made. Each time we go we have to return empty handed. This is just because the doctor has spent lakhs of rupees they are not ready to take steps against her. The hospitals around us has left our lives in total mess because of the vehicles parked, buzzing horns, patients vomiting and urinating, throwing garbages and what not? Many a times human fetuses are found in our area, which today too has been covered by local news channels. This trouble is due to the corrupted officers of BHADA who gave an illegal permission and false completio