PMC IS JUST NOT LISTENING & RESPONDING: PART 3
DEVELOPERS HAVE NOT LAID THE CONNECTING ROAD, PMC SAYS DEVELOPERS HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT VISITING ACTUAL SITE, HERE IS THE PROOF!
It is a common sense that Developers are duty bound to provide connecting road from their project site to the nearest PMC or PWD road. It is our understanding that it is mandatory for each Developer to comply with this requirement.
When the completion certificate was provided to M/s. Palladium Properties, a joint venture between M/s. Shreyas Shelters and M/s. Raojee Constructions, PMC authorities did not verify if the connecting road has been laid by the Developers or not (SURPRISING ISN'T IT!).
We the residents have been approaching builder informally for several years now, with a request to fulfill this mandatory requirement. Developers did not pay any attention and neither took it seriously.
Frustrated with this attitude, we wrote several communications to the builders, which went UN-noticed. Finally, we wrote to PMC Commissioner (vide ref. no. PG-0070/2015 dated 7 September 2015). Relevant [related to connecting road] part of this 11-page long letter is appended below.
After a lot of perseverance, we received a response from City Engineer office, PMC [vide ref. no. Zone1/2002 dated 3 November 2015]. In its letter, PMC claims that;
"There is an access to PMC road from the project site, and all the buildings are accessible as well."
[See PMC Response below]
Now here is the ground zero situation as depicted in these photographs;
This view is from the PMC road towards the Palladium Grand Complex. This so-called connecting road is simply that of the rubble and soil. Is it a motorable connecting road? Can you call it a finished product?
After this, we tried contacting the office of the City Engineer, PMC. There was no response of what so ever kind.
We are shocked because of the non-responsive attitude of the PMC officers. Through this blogpost, we would like to ask Hon. Municipal Commissioner the following questions.
- Why PMC Officers are going to slow in pursuing this issue with the developer/builders?
- Why PMC is not blacklisting M/s. Palladium Properties, M/s. Raojee Constructions, M/s. Shreyas Shelters and M/s Shirish Dasnurkar for cheating PMC, and violating its mandatory compliance?
- How come PMC officers without verifying the facts on ground replied that Developers have indeed provided the connecting road?
Given our previous experience, we have no guarantee that PMC officers will indeed read this blog, or even respond. However, we are hopeful that the Chief Executive Officer i.e. Hon. PMC Commissioner will at some stage feel it essential to appropriate action in favor of the suffering citizens at the hands of the builders.
At your mercy PMC Officers,
Palladium Grand Flat Owners
RELEVANT PART OF THE OUR COMMUNICATION ADDRESSED TO HON. PMC COMMISSIONER MR. KUNAL KUMAR [PG-0070/2015 dated 7 September 2015] RELATED TO CONNECTING ROAD
Connecting Road:
While sanctioning the plan proposed by the developers, the Office of the Dy. City Engineer (Development Plan) vide its commencement certificates nos. DPO/10396/H/75 dated 17 March 2006, DPO/4765/H/84 dated 11 Sept 2006 and DPO/8826/H/91 dated 18th January 2007 developers were mandated to provide connecting road [that connects the complex with the main DP road] of appropriate dimensions & quality. We are pained to inform you that such a connecting road is not built by the developers till date. As a consequence several minor and major accidents have happened, and the very life of the residents is always under threat.
a. Did your officers or relevant department(s) was aware of this fact, that developers have not made connecting road that can cater to the entire Phase 1?
b. How come your officer(s) or relevant department provided completion & occupancy certificate without ensuring that connecting roads are indeed provided by the developer?
c. Given the above-mentioned circumstances, what action(s) would you propose to be taken against the defaulting developers who have clearly violated the spirit & specifications mentioned in the commencement certificates?
d. What action(s) you would propose against the officers or the departments of the PMC which overlooked the compliance of the commencement certificate, and provided completion and occupancy certificate to the developers without ensuring that the specifications mentioned in the commencement certificates has been complied with in letter & spirit?
e. What instructions or penalties or punitive measures you would impose upon the developers who have blatantly violated the directives of the commencement certificates for provision of connecting road?
f. What plans and curative measures you would like to propose to ensure that the occupants are supplied with connecting road either by the developers or by the relevant PMC mechanism?
g. How and what actions you and relevant departments will initiate to ensure that this facility is provided to the flat owners in immediate near future?
h. How and what measures you and the relevant departments will initiate to compensate [or order developers to compensate] the flat owners for pain & trauma they have undergone for non provision of this facility which needs to be fulfilled according to the commencement certificates issued by relevant departments?
