Telangana: Layout Regularisation Scheme applicants forced to furnish hard copies of property documents in Mancherial

Applicants are now making a beeline to the municipal corporation to find out the status of their application with the last date inching closer

Mancherial: Applicants of the Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS) are being forced to furnish hard copies relating to documents of properties by visiting the office of the Mancherial Municipal Corporation in order to pay the regularisation fee even as the process was online.

The government had announced the scheme by offering a rebate of 25 per cent on the fee with a deadline of March 31. The applicants are advised to pay the fee by finding out the status of their applications, approval proceeding, fee details, shortfall details and rejection letters by visiting a dedicated website — https://lrs.telangana.gov.in/.

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Applicants are now making a beeline to the municipal corporation to find out the status of their application with the last date inching closer. They are asked to provide details of the assets to the officials of the planning department. The officials are entering the details of the house sites gathered from photocopies of the properties, helping the applicants to pay the fee.

“Even though the government introduced an online-based process for applying and payment of the fee, we are required to visit the office of the corporation and to submit xerox copies of the assets. This is consuming more time than that of physical process,” an applicant opined. He urged the officials to take steps to ease the process.

Many applicants said they were unable to pay the fee by visiting the website of the scheme. They stated that they were facing inconvenience due to negligence of the officials in clarifying their doubts and addressing their grievances. They said they were struggling to pay the fee if the mobile phones of the owners of the house sites were not reachable.

Meanwhile, some applicants were shocked to pay hefty fees for regularisation assets. For instance, a woman applicant was taken aback when she was asked to pay a fee of Rs 28.94 crore for regularising her land measuring 1,331 square yards in Naspur mandal centre. Another applicant was told to pay Rs 5 crore for his 380 square yards plot.