Recovery of demolition cost of Encroachments on Public Land and Fresh Un-authorized constructions)
To ensure effective actions against fresh illegal/un-authorized constructions and encroachment on government/public land, the CHB is adopting ZERO tolerance policy.
2. All the allottees who have been issued Challans/demolition notices against the fresh constructions are required to remove the violations immediately to avoid demolition by the Chandigarh Housing Board. During last three years, the CHB has demolished many un-authorized constructions and recovered the cost of demolitions from the allottees and in case of its non-payment their allotments are liable to be cancelled. The detail of demolition charges is as under:
Demand Raised (Rs.)
Paid by the allottee (Rs.)
Yet to be paid (Rs.)
38,93,119/-
34,06,696/-
4,86,423/-
3. The cost of demolition include following component on actual basis. In case more than one unit is demolished on a particular day then the cost is apportioned among the units taken-up for demolition.
• Labour cost including their food charges
• Salary of CHB staff deployed for duty
• Cost of Machinery deployed
• Transportation charges
4. Unit wise detail of cost of demolition levied and status of its payment has been uploaded on the website of the CHB. All the allottees who have not yet paid the demolition charges are required to pay the same immediately alongwith applicable interest for delay the delay period to avoid cancellation of their units.
5. All the allotttess are again requested not to undertake any fresh building violations otherwise the same is liable to be demolished on their risk and cost. Since these violations may lead to structure safety issues not only for the dwelling units but also for the particular unit and also for the adjoining unit also, the CHB is adopting zero tolerance policy.
6. Further all the encroachments on government/public land need to be removed immediately without any notice from CHB.
