GMC issues notices to 626 vacant land owners

Guntur: Municipal Corporation (GMC) issued notices to 626 vacant land owners to clean their house sites in the city to check stagnation of rain water in the coming season.

According to this notice, the land owners should have to clean their vacant lands within a week. If they fail to do so, the town planning department will clean the vacant lands and impose heavy penalty on the vacant land owners. 

According to norms, if GMC will spend Rs 30,000 for cleaning and levelling the vacant land, it will impose three times penalty on the vacant land owners.

The GMC Commissioner will decide and impose penalty on the vacant lands in the city. 

At present, vacant lands were covered with bushes and pits. 

During the rainy season, the rain water will stagnate in the pits in the vacant lands and they will turn as breeding centres for mosquitoes which will spread viral fevers, dengue and malaria fevers.

Taking this into consideration, the GMC has taken steps to clean the vacant lands.

District Collector Kona Sasidar has directed the officials to clean the vacant lands in all municipalities and the GMC. 

They are supposed to create awareness among the residents and vacant land owners regarding the problems connected to vacant lands left without care. 

The town planning officials have been gathering addresses of the vacant land owners with the help of bill collectors and issuing notices.

The GMC has already started special drive to clean the vacant lands in the city.

GMC Additional Commissioner K Ramachandra Reddy said, “We have issued notices to the vacant land owners to clean their vacant lands within a week. 

If they did not respond, we will clean the vacant lands and impose penalty on them. 

The GMC will instruct the registrar not to register the vacant lands till the land owner pays the penalty and takes no-objection certificate from the GMC.” 

He felt it would be better for land owners to clean the vacant land on their own. 

He urged the land owners to clean their vacant lands and cooperate with the GMC.