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Old Posted Mar 19, 2010, 4:13 PM
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Civic body slaps stop-work notice on World Cup gallery

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With the VVIP enclosure controversy at Eden Gardens far from over, Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) seems headed for more trouble, this time over renovation of the two blocks that it has taken up for the 2011 world cup.

Kolkata Municipal Corporation is peeved that the association started construction work inside the stadium without bothering to take its permission. The KMC building department has slapped a stop-work notice on what it calls an “illegal construction” because CAB did not submit the project plan for approval. The civic authorities have ordered CAB to cease work immediately, submit a detailed plan to KMC and wait for the answer.

The decision to serve the notice was taken after the joint director-general of KMC’s building department, Debasis Kar, inspected Eden Gardens while the construction was on.

Kar reported his findings to mayor Bikash Bhattacharya and sought his permission to serve a ‘stern notice’ to the state cricket body for allegedly flouting the standard norms. The notice was issued under Section 401 of the KMC Buildings Act, which empowers KMC to pull down any “illegal structure” or impose a huge penalty on the offender to have the building regularized.

Livid with the CAB ‘defiance’, the mayor asked the buildings department to deal with the case firmly. Bhattacharya came down heavily on the CAB, saying the entire structure was illegal. “How can we keep our eyes shut when there has been gross violation of KMC building rules? In such cases, the KMC building department does not require my permission to send a notice to the errant organization,” he said. Under no circumstances would CAB be allowed to start reconstruction of the galleries without the KMC sanction, Bhattacharya said.

CAB joint secretary Biswarup De, however, said that the association has already obtained a sanction from the state PWD department for remodelling the stadium. “Will someone from the KMC tell us why we should take permission from two authorities for the same purpose. Once I have obtained permission from the PWD, is there any need to apply for the same before the KMC building department? I am afraid that this points to a lack of coordination among government departments,” De said.

The KMC joint director-general (building) contests this. Kar told TOI that it was mandatory for CAB to get its building plans passed by the civic body. “Any deviation from this will be treated as an illegal affair and the structure will be termed as illegal as well,” Kar said.

PWD minister Kshiti Goswami confirmed that his department had approved the plan submitted by CAB for reconstruction of Eden Gardens. “We are the apex body to give sanction to the plan submitted by the cricket body. If the KMC has to say anything on the plan, they may take up the matter with the CAB authorities, but KMC is yet to inform us of the matter,” Goswami said.
Source : Times of India
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