DTCP Posts 1,319 Notices; Sealing Drive in Private Colonies From Monday

GURUGRAM: The Department of Town and Country Planning’s enforcement wing said on Friday that demolition and sealing in private colonies will start on Monday, after serving 1,319 show-cause notices and 662 restoration orders for illegal building, stilt misuse and commercial use of residential plots.

The count is no longer a DLF-only file. South City accounts for 538 notices — 230 for mixed commercial-residential breaches and 308 for purely residential ones. Sushant Lok, RD City and Vatika are also on the list, the enforcement office said. Restoration orders tell owners to pull down extra rooms, clear setbacks and put stilt floors back to parking.

District Town Planner (Enforcement) Amit Madholia said the drive is not aimed at any one person. “The authorities, under the guidance of deputy commissioner, are ensuring 100% compliance with the directions of Punjab and Haryana high court and Supreme Court,” he said on Thursday. Stilt floors, he added, are only for vehicles. Rooms, paying-guest beds, guesthouses and shops built there will be examined; where the breach is proved, the department will seal or demolish as the rules allow.

“If the violations are not remedied, action will be taken to seal the property and demolish the illegal construction, as per the regulations,” Madholia said.

Monday’s round follows weeks of colony-level action — Palam Vihar gates, Greenwood City walls, DLF stilt rooms — and a Supreme Court clock. GMDA had told the court encroachments in its jurisdiction would come down within two weeks of the 4 August order. DTCP’s notices are the paper trail inside licensed colonies, where the planning department, not the municipal corporation, has to move.

Owners who have already received restoration orders have the weekend to undo the work. Those who have not replied to show-cause notices can still file a response, but Friday’s statement leaves little room for another round of warnings. Sealing a floor used as a PG will hit tenants as well as the owner. Madholia has asked neighbours to report fresh construction rather than wait for a complaint on Samadhan.

The 662 restoration orders are the more immediate list: they already direct owners to put the building back to the sanctioned plan. Non-compliance on that list is what Monday’s teams are expected to convert into demolition. South City’s 538 notices make it the largest single pocket. Enforcement will, officials said, follow inspections and complaints, not a colony-by-colony publicity calendar.

Public land, road berms and passages are in the same brief as indoor violations. The department has also said construction without permission or against the approved plan will be treated as a separate head. For licensed-colony residents, the practical instruction from the town planner is simple: do not occupy the stilt, do not eat the setback, and do not run a shop from a house that was sanctioned as a house.