City engineer Madhav Harihar told media persons today that about 50,000 flat owners, mainly in Katraj, Dhankawdi and Sinhgad Road in the merged villages will benefit by this policy. He, however, made it clear that proposal had to be approved by city improvements committee, general body and then the State Government.

Harihar said the proposal was out worked since the administration did not want to the keep the problem hanging for an uncertain period. Stating that the formula to decide the compunding fee was yet to be finalised, Harihar said the administration had outlined certain guidelines to charge the compunding fee.

According to Harihar, the amount of compounding fee would be decided by the corporation in those cases where two FSI had been consumed. He said the buildings where more than two FSI had been used, the civic body would levy surcharge in addition to the compounding fee.

Harihar said the administration would consider a single flat as the basic unit while inspecting the buildings and deciding the compounding fee. He said a flat owner could get his flat regularised even if he could produce the plan of his flat and agreement with the builder or developer. The flat owner would be given completition certificate after payment of the compounding fee. The property owner would have to submit the evidence of his onwership of a plot if he wanted to regularise his bungalow.

To a question on those unauthorised buildngs where the side margin had not been left as per the development control rules, Harihar said he had proposed to regularise even these structures after recovering compounding fee.

He said getting a particular building regularised was primarily the responsibility of the land owner or power of attorney holder. He said the PMC would take penal action if the land owner or power of attorney holder did not apply to regularise the building. To another question, Harihar said a flat could be regularised even if the land owner or power of attorney holder of that plot, where the building had come up, did not apply to get it regularised.

Stating that the proposal has also suggested a solution on illegal alienation and fragmentation of the land, Harihar said in those cases, where there has been unauthorised fragmentation of land, it would be regularised of each plot having the area more than one guntha and approach road of 15 feet. He said the development charges would be levied to the concerned persons while issuing building permission certificate.