Telangana Government introduced Layout Regulatory Scheme (LRS) guidelines to bring all the unapproved layouts into the framework of planned sustainable development.

Although there was an immense response to the regularisation of plots in unauthorized layouts there are more than 25 lakh applications in the state, where many plot owners did not come forward to regularise their properties under the LRS in the nearby municipalities and municipal corporations where illegal layouts have mushroomed.

The LRS scheme was declared on September 1 and ended on October 31 by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) department. The state also stopped registrations of plots in illegal layouts and buildings without permission from civic bodies. 

Submitted LRS Applications 

On Sunday, Nov 1st, the MA&UD department provided LRS applications statistics reports, 25.59 lakh applications from across the state were received. Of these, 10.83 lakh applications came from more than 12,000-gram panchayats and 10.60 lakh from 141 municipalities. In unauthorized layouts in municipal corporations, four lakh plot owners applied to regularise their plots.

Although the largest number of applications were received with 1.06 lakhs from plot owners in the GHMC jurisdiction, another 1.01 lakh applications came from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Hyderabad Warangal. Furthermore, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), which has hundreds of illegal layouts, did not apply to regularise their plots in unapproved layouts.

Only 4,175 applications have been received by Nizampet municipal corporation, regarded as the civic body with the highest number of illegal layouts and buildings in the state. Likewise, Boduppal received 17, 915 applications, while Medchal-Malkajgiri's Jawaharnagar municipal corporation received the lowest applications, with only 368 property owners showing interest in regularising their plots.

Badangpet municipal corporation received 46,894 applications from the city's surrounding civic bodies. For municipalities in the districts of Rangareddy, the upmarket municipality of Manikonda received just 2,500 applications, and Narsingi received 3,800 applications.

Among the old municipal corporations and district headquarters, over 50,000 applications have been received by Khammam and half by Karimnagar. There were zero applications from some civic bodies like Mulugu and Warangal.

The state government earned almost Rs 100 crore for the initial registration fee and could get a penal price of between Rs 10,000-15,000 crore. A senior MA&UD department official said the processing of all LRS applications would begin in the next few days and be finished in the next three months.

By: Shailaja K