Private hospital gets notice for CLU violation

LUDHIANA: In an ongoing drive to recover the pending change of land use (CLU) charges from commercial units, the municipal corporation officials have served seven notices to a private hospital. The owner of hospital was told to either clear the dues or MC would seal all eight units. Fearing the sealing notices, now the owner has given in writing to the officials that he was ready to pay all charges.
The civic body officials had served the first notice (copy of which is with TOI) for the main hospital building as the building plan of this building was approved for establishing a commercial unit but on the spot a hospital was constructed. Moreover, all three floors of the building were in violation of the approved building plan due to which parking became an issue and people were facing difficulties while finding space for parking their vehicles.
Then another notice was served for the parking lot that was established on a residential plot opposite the main hospital. The officials claimed that no building plan was approved for the parking lot and it was also built without paying the change of land use charges.
Similarly, more notices were served with regard to a drug store, a kidney centre, a child-care hospital and diagnostic lab. No CLU was paid and no building plans were sanctioned for all of these. Three days were given to the owner to clear dues and he was also asked to give reasons why the MC should not seal these buildings.
The municipal town planner SS Bindra said, “We are serving notices to all such commercial establishments and this private hospital was also one of prime defaulters. The owner has given an assurance to clear all dues and has given it in writing. As far as the illegal floors of the main hospitals are concerned, those will be regularised under the one-time settlement scheme.”