Paridhi Arya
Published on April 26, 2022 at 11:58 IST
The Division Bench of Justice L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai of Supreme Court observed that State Government should bring a comprehensive Action Plan so that illegal colonies can be stopped from coming up. Mushrooming of Illegal Colonies is a great crisis for Development of Urban Areas.
Bench appointed Advocate Gopal Sankarnarayanan as Amicus Curiae so that he can make suggestions adopted by Government to prevent illegal colonies.
“Unless there is some comprehensive action plan by the State Governments so as to prevent these colonies from coming up, take these relevant Officers to task for allowing these Colonies, and thereafter one of the suggestions is to stop the registration so that people do not claim equities. We will have to find some way of making State Governments act on this. This is a menace to Urban Development,” the Bench said.
“Amicus is permitted to prepare a questionnaire and circulate it to the states and union territories. List after three weeks,” the Bench said.
The Petition was filed by Juvvadi Sagar Rao who is a social worker, it is alleged in the Petition that the Government in Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have regularized the illegal layout.
Advocate Sravan Kumar representing the Petitioner argued that this regularization leads to unregulated development which results in floods.
“Floods are coming due to irregular constructions. There needs to be a regular proper development, even the Environment Ministry says that there has to be approval,” he said.
The contention made in the Plea that this unregulated growth resulted in traffic jams, shortage of drains etc. There is loss of life with loss to private and public properties.
The Notification is issued again of regularization of unauthorized Colonies as Government did not took notice of disasters taking place due to this regularization.
“This is a gross violation of Rule of Law, building rules, etc. The Act of Respondents will encourage illegal layouts and discourage the citizens who have followed the Rule of Law. The State of Telangana, particularly Hyderabad city and Warangal has faced severe flooding due to unplanned development,” the Plea said.