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‘Adarsh Society did not give NOC to MMRDA’
The controversial Adarsh Housing Society had not submitted a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Army or Navy, giving clearance to construction of the building from security point of view, to the MMRDA, a senior Government official told an inquiry commission on Tuesday.
“No NOC from the Navy or Army was submitted by the society. Till today the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has not received any letter from the Defence Ministry stating that it has no objection for allowing construction of a multi-storey building on the land in question,” CY Khandare, senior town and country planning officer, MMRDA, said while deposing before the two-member inquiry commission.
Khandare was being cross-examined by the counsel for the Ministry of Defense Aniket Nikam.
The MMRDA official said that on July 11, 2005 a letter was sent to the architects of Adarsh Society asking them to submit an NOC from the Defense Ministry.
“A week later the architect of the society wrote back to the MMRDA giving an undertaking to comply with the requirement of NOC,” Khandare said, adding that no letter has been received from the society as yet. Asked by Nikam as to why then construction commencement certificates were issued to the society from time to time, Khandare said there is no provision in DCR requiring a society to obtain NOC from Army or Navy.
The controversial Adarsh Housing Society had not submitted a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Army or Navy, giving clearance to construction of the building from security point of view, to the MMRDA, a senior Government official told an inquiry commission on Tuesday.
“No NOC from the Navy or Army was submitted by the society. Till today the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has not received any letter from the Defence Ministry stating that it has no objection for allowing construction of a multi-storey building on the land in question,” CY Khandare, senior town and country planning officer, MMRDA, said while deposing before the two-member inquiry commission.
Khandare was being cross-examined by the counsel for the Ministry of Defense Aniket Nikam.
The MMRDA official said that on July 11, 2005 a letter was sent to the architects of Adarsh Society asking them to submit an NOC from the Defense Ministry.
“A week later the architect of the society wrote back to the MMRDA giving an undertaking to comply with the requirement of NOC,” Khandare said, adding that no letter has been received from the society as yet. Asked by Nikam as to why then construction commencement certificates were issued to the society from time to time, Khandare said there is no provision in DCR requiring a society to obtain NOC from Army or Navy.
