Thursday, January 07, 2010

Commercialization of Primary Residential Areas.

As a resident of the formerly quiet residential locality of Kalakshetra Colony, I now would like to ask when corrupt official in both the Chennai Corporation and Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has given permission for Commercial Establishments to enter into the Primary Residential Localities of Chennai, especially Kalakshetra Colony.

We find that the new CMDA rules and regulations which are valid till the year 2026, states clearly that Kalakshetra Colony is a Primary Residential Area and is also a layout done before August 1975.

Today we have so many Commercial establishments - Auroville, Grandma Grandpa (an expensive play school) , Til Spices (a take away), Kamanuri Art Gallery etc etc. Purple boutique in an interior road.

As per the rules for Primary Residential Locality we are allowed Tuition center in 100sq.m of area. Tuition can comprise of 5 to 10 students. But we have Winners Academy which is located in a 'cul de sac' and these people have a minimum of 40 students for classes starting as early as 6 am and children coming in vehicles as early as 5.45 am disturbing the peace and quiet of the area where many residents are senior citizens. The worst is at the end of the class at 7 am when some parents come to pick up their wards and are in a tearing hurry and they start to honk and create a ruckus thereby irritating the residents. The noise created by the children at the end of each session is another thing. They have sessions both in the evening and morning and at least two to three sessions in the evening.

This can never be considered a Tuition center but a Coaching center which definitely does not warrant its presence in a primary residential locality.

To top this all, none of these Commercial ventures have any license from the Chennai Corporation. The Corporation gave notices to all these commercial ventures and then slept through so that these commercial establishments can take injunctions. An oppotune moment for money making?

Letters to the CMDA (Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority) and Chennai Corporation has evoked no response.

Who is corrupt? If the CMDA does not take immediate action to our letters then we know that there is rampant corruption in the organization from top to bottom.

Rules are made to be broken ? Officers are busy with other matters of the Government that this is not so important.

Kalakshetra Colony consists of more Senior Citizens who moved to this area to settle down in peace but only in India and that too in Tamilnadu Senior Citizens are not respected and their everyday problems are ignored. Oops. I forgot the CM is Senior Citizen and he is well taken care of as he is at the helm of power. Residents have lost faith in the system and unless some action is taken to relieve the Senior Citizens of this pain, I feel the present generation will suffer even more when they become Senior Citizens.

Any one interested in taking appropriate action?



1 comment:

Manoj Kumar Jha said...

Commercialization of Primary Residential Ara is increasing day by day because of (1) Increasing population (2) And people do not want to go far away for marketing. They want in their neighborhood. In this way they are motivating the business people to set up their business in the residential apartments.
Main thing we have to think about parking of vehicles. on MG road, because of Vegetable market there are big crowd. The visitors park their vehicle in haphazard manner and because of that so many accidents happens.We have to take care of these things on priority basis.