Development charges in haryana
Subroto
(Querist) 08 August 2015
This query is : Open
Sir,
We are running a school that was started in 1946. Now there is a proposal to erect a new building on the same land for which the 'building plan' is to be sanctioned from the concerned Municipal Council (MC). But the Building Inspector is saying that we will have to pay the development charges @ Rs.120/sq.yd. so that the building plan can be approved. When I asked him what is the basis of levying these development charges, he said that only the plots falling under the lal dora are exempted and on all other plots these charges are levied.
I asked the same question to a Building Inspector working in a different district and he told me that development charges are not levied in two cases :-
1. that the plot is in lal dora area ;
2. that the colony in which the concerned plot falls came into existence before the Haryana Urban Act 1975.
Our school in situated in such colony but our MC's Building Inspector is insisting on paying the charges.
I have also done some research. What I have found is that the development charges are levied only in unauthorized colonies in order to regularise them or when there is a change of land use. Also our area falls under the original municipal limits and the school exists since its inception.
So, what exactly are these development charges and why are some areas/colonies exempted from these charges?
