Illegal occupants keep VAMBAY allottees at bay

Hyderabad | Sunday | 25th March, 2018

Summary:

What is baffling to them is the inability of the field-level officers of GHMC to evict unauthorised occupants. When the issue was brought to the notice of GHMC Chief Engineer (Housing) Suresh Kumar, he said the bonafide allottees could approach him or Superintending Engineering (Housing) and unauthorised occupants would be evicted and flats handed over to owners. It is more than two months since some beneficiaries like G.

Padma and her husband have been trying to take possession of their allotted flat in Kowkur, but the present illegal occupants would have none of it. But in VAMBAY colony with about 500 single room flats at Kowkur in Malkajgiri mandal of Medchal district, allottees are eager to take possession of the houses allotted to them but have to contend with illegal occupants of their houses, who had moved in while the tenements were vacant and refuse to vacate them now. In October, 2014, Ranga Reddy District Collector sent notices to beneficiaries to submit proof of identity, Aadhaar number, ration card, voter identity card and pay the bank loan component to claim their flats..