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न्यूज क्लिपिंग्स् | Forest land: Mumbai builders get nod

Forest land: Mumbai builders get nod

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published Published on Jan 25, 2010   modified Modified on Jan 25, 2010

It is probably the best news for Mumbai's leading builders who had invested thousands of crores of rupees on buying prime plots to develop flats and residences but got stuck in the environment tangle as the land was classified later as forest area.

After years of uncertainity, the Supreme Court on Monday cleared their construction activity. However, the green light came with two riders — one they must pay the hefty penalty (Net Payable Value or NPV) slapped on them for using forest land for other activities and two, that the constructions would remain subject to further clearance from the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF).

A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices Deepak Verma and B S Chauhan gave the go-ahead to the builders for resuming the construction activity on the submission of Attorney General G E Vahanvati who stressed that if any objection was raised later by MoEF, then the builders have to deal with it separately irrespective of the SC permission.

The builders, who had paid the NPV, immediately agreed to the condition. Through senior advocate A M Singhvi they said they have already deposited the highest possible NPV, a term used for imposing cost for compensatory afforestation, that could be slapped on worst cases even though many of them have not been so categorised.

Appearing for 1.5 lakh flat owners in the area under environmental objection, advocate Sanjay Hegde said that these were middle class families who have invested their life's savings and wanted to get over the problem by paying one-time NPV.

The Bench sympathised with them and asked Vahanvati whether similar permission be accorded to them as they appear to be facing some financial crunch. The AG said there were a vast number of such middle-income societies and only a few of them have paid up the NPV.

Hence, it would be prudent to give four weeks' time to all of them to pay up the NPV after which identical permission could be given to them. "I am not against grant of permission to them. But, passing piecemeal orders could complicate the situation," he clarified.

 

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