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MLAs want Tata Camelot housing project pact annulled
A four-member team of the MLAs’ society led by Vidhan Sabha Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal, and also comprising former Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon, Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka and former BJP minister Balramji Das Tandon, held two meetings with the top bosses of Tata Housing in Mumbai. During the meetings held on June 10 and June 11, the team sought an amicable settlement between the Tata group and the MLAs’ society. The society had entered into an agreement with Tata Housing and Hash Builders Private limited to develop 21.2 acres of land in Kansal village in the city’s periphery in 2007. The team stressed that each of its 126 society members had received only two instalments of Rs 33 lakh each out of the Rs 82.5 lakh promised to them. Besides, it had also been agreed that the members would get one flat each of around 2500 square feet. The team members claimed that since the project had got stuck due to legal wrangles (the HC had stayed the project due to environmental concerns) and an inordinate delay had occurred in the commissioning of the project, an amicable solution should be found.Atwal said senior officers of Tata Housing listened to the concerns of the society members. It was decided that they would visit Chandigarh within a fortnight to discuss the issue. The team members also met Tata Housing Managing Director Brotin Bannerjee, besides other senior officials, during the visit. Though Tata officials were not available for comment and the local partner refused to entertain questions, sources said Tata Housing had expressed concerns on reneging on the agreement due to two issues. One, the case was in court and that both parties should wait till the pendency of the case. The second was that the MLAs’ society had already got one third of its 21.2 acre plot registered with Tata and its local partner. However, a senior member of the society told TNS that the team told Tata Housing that in case Tata Housing and its local partner agreed, the land could be re-registered back to the MLAs’ society. The members are also ready to give the money back to the company in return for freeing them from the agreement. The legislators, who had formed Punjabi Cooperative House Building Society, Mohali, with 126 members and had been given 500 square yards plots each, have been trying to get out of the agreement with Tata Housing for the past two years. Earlier, the society had revoked the general power of attorney issued to Tatas to build a 19-tower housing project comprising 1,734 apartments. Tata’s local partner had then claimed that the agreement could not be cancelled unilaterally by society. what Team members say * Each of its 126 society members had received only two instalments of `33 lakh each out of the `82.5 lakh promised to them. * The project had got stuck due to legal wrangles * High court had stayed the project due to environmental concerns * As an inordinate delay had occurred in the commissioning of the project, an amicable solution should be found. The case so far * The legislators had formed Punjabi Cooperative House Building Society, Mohali. * The society had entered into an agreement with Tata Housing and Hash Builders Private limited to develop 21.2 acres of land in Kansal village in the city’s periphery. * They have been trying to get out of the agreement with Tata Housing for the past two years. * The society had revoked the general power of attorney issued to Tatas to build a 19-tower housing project.
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Chandigarh, June 12