The office bearers of the Mysore Cooperative Housing Society in Chembur have been accused by the society’s tenants of constructing an unlawful clubhouse without obtaining any permission from the municipal administration. Residents claim that the clubhouse was built on a plot of land set out for development under the terms of the development plan, but the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has done nothing to address the illegal building.
The clubhouse of the upscale Mysore Cooperative Housing Society, which consists of 91 bungalows spread across 21 acres in Chembur (E), is at the centre of a dispute. A few residents have written to the BMC commissioner, claiming that the building was constructed on land designated for development plan 2034 without the municipal corporation’s approval. The BMC’s Building Proposal department is cited in the complaint as well, stating in an RTI response that no approval has been given for a club house.
Arun Sekhri, a resident and managing committee member of the society, filed the first complaint in July claiming that the society’s office bearers had chosen to build a brand-new ground-plus-one structure clubhouse between April and September of last year instead of renovating the temporary structure they had decided to demolish. The complaint further claimed that the office bearers had refused to present the BMC permissions as well as the proposal to build the clubhouse for committee approval.
Source: The Free Press Journal