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| 5 months on, Building By-Laws, Code-2020 await approval | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, June 18: Despite the passage of over five months now, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has failed to get the J&K UT Building By-Laws; Building Code-2020 approved which it unveiled last year. In the month of November last year, the Principal Secretary to the Government Housing and Urban Development department had issued a notification of public [No. HUD/54/2020/JDA Part File Dated 29-10-2020] and sought ‘useful suggestions’ from the general public.
The public was asked to submit suggestions and objections within a 30 days. “Suggestions / objections can be sent by post to the Housing and Urban Development Department or through e-mail ([email protected]) within a period of 30 days from the date of publication of this notice,” reads the notice issued by Housing and Urban Development Department.
A senior official from the Housing and Urban Development Department told Early Times that Building By-Laws, Building Code-2020 has been finalized and is waiting for formal approval.
“We don’t know why it is not being formally implemented,” he said.
If implemented, the officer said, it will bring a positive change across Jammu and Kashmir particularly in urban areas as unplanned development and constructions were damaging the environment.
In Jammu and Kashmir particularly in Kashmir illegal constructions were going on unabated. “The new law certainly goes tough against constructions along rivers and water bodies but in developmental zones it gives some relaxations as well,” Anantnag resident Zahid Ahmad observed.
Last year the Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir came up with the new Building By-laws which shall apply to the building activity in the entire UT for all Urban Local Bodies and Urban Development authorities including Jammu and Srinagar Municipal Corporations.
These new building by-laws shall be applicable to all building activities undertaken by the private or Government agencies and shall be read in conjunction with Master Plan / Zonal Development Plan or any other statutory plan in force and notification, with regard to the same and amended from time to time. These Building By-laws shall remain in force for the next five years. Till such time, the reviewed building By-laws are notified, these building bye-laws will continue to be in force.
“No construction activity shall be allowed in the areas vulnerable to flood/ flash floods, water courses. No development, whether any filling or otherwise shall be carried out from the 50 mts of the edge of the bank of any river, stream or major water course like Chenab, Jhelum. Tawi, Ravi, Ujh or any other river/ Khud. The recommended safer distance for water bodies like Mansar, Surinsar, Wullar, Nageen, Manasbal and other lakes shall be 30 mtrs and for Canals like Ranbir Canal, Sindh Canal, Partap, Kashmir Canals etc 20 mts,” reads the said.
The draft says that the green buffer along the Nallas/ Rivers or the open space along the River/tributary shall be minimum 30 meters from the highest water level or as provided in the master plan/zonal development plan or as provided under water regulatory act, whichever is more. |
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