AHMEDABAD: After a three-month sample survey of 8,320 buildings - residential, commercial, highrises, and special category buildings such as hospitals - across municipal corporations and nagarpalikas, the urban development department has concluded that almost 35% of the surveyed structures are without building-use (BU) permissions. The reasons include the addition of floors, the change of use of buildings, and jurisdictional issues.
If penalty measures were to be executed for buildings without the BU nod, then it would lead to extensive demolitions. In its recommendations to the state government, the urban development department has said that an ordinance can be brought out with certain "conditions" for property owners to surmount this legal hurdle.
