HUDA administrator disowns notices

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service
Gurgaon, July 3The local HUDA administrator has distanced himself from his recent announcement of disconnecting the water supply and sewer connections to the house owners of builder-licensed areas of the city who have not obtained their occupation certificates.
An official press note was issued on behalf of the local HUDA administrator, Nitin Yadav, here on June 30.
In that statement, Yadav had stated that the water supply and sewer connections of those house owners of Gurgaon who had occupied the houses in builder-licensed residential colonies without obtaining the mandatory occupation certificate from the Town and Country Planning Department would be cut.
Yadav had said as per the terms and conditions of the licence, an approval of building plan must be obtained before undertaking the construction work and an occupation certificate had to be obtained before occupying the building.
However, in a fresh press note issued here today, it was claimed that the notices for disconnecting the services of the houses in licensed private colonies had been issued by the Town and Country Planning Department and not by the HUDA administrator.
In the statement, a spokesman for the department said the name of HUDA administrator Nitin Yadav was inadvertently included in the press note issued on Wednesday regarding the disconnecting of services to the houses whose occupants had not taken occupation certificate, whereas he had nothing to do with the issuing of notices.
“In fact, the notices have been issued by the Senior Town Planner on behalf of the Town and Country Planning Department,” he maintained.
Meanwhile, talking to The Tribune, RS Rathee, president of the Gurgaon Citizens Council, maintained that the HUDA administrator had distanced himself from the issue after they complained to the Chief Administrator of HUDA of the undue interference and highhandedness of the local HUDA authorities.
Meanwhile, a special cell has been created at the local circle office of the Town and Country Planning Department to attend to the colonisers and residents, who have been given two weeks’ time to obtain the certificates.