Nature of land is wet, how to obtain building permit

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The order of revenue divisional officer is necessary to construct the building on the paddy or wetland which was converted before August 12, 2008. Besides under the Wetland Act, the local body has power only to recommend to the district collector to reclaim five cents land for those who do not have house. According to the LSGD order, applications for construction on lands which were reclaimed before the Conservation of Wetland and Paddy Land Act 2008 came into effect, can be approved. After the act came into force, a data bank was prepared and all wetland and paddy land were marked out in this. The LSGD order made it clear that land which was not part of this data bank can be approved for construction, after scrutiny by the village officer and the agricultural officer. The Revenue Department order, however, said that even though the land for which building permits application was submitted is not part of the wetland/paddy land data bank, it can be cleared only by the District Collector if it is marked as paddy land in the tax register. As per this recent Revenue order, the LSGD order will be applicable for non-paddy/wetland which is still marked as paddy land in the tax register, if a house already exists in the land. Those lands without houses will be considered only as paddy fields and these require the clearance of the District Collector, when a building permit application is submitted. So file the application for getting a building permit. If they reject the same approach the high court

Advocate Ajay NS LawRato