No Petrol Pump Land for Real Estate Purpose - Property in Mumbai
State Government of Maharashtra has recently issued a directive to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) not to allow petrol pump owners to change the designated use of the land for any other purpose.
The directive was issued on the background of a few cases in Mumbai where some of the fuel refilling station owners have given up their current business to switch over to the land development purpose. To cash in on the rising property prices, petrol pump owners have been submitting development proposals to the BMC. Some of these, have already got the civic body’s permission to change the usage of the land.
Out of the 257 petrol pumps in the city, 40% are on lease land. With the government order, the civic body would now extend the lease on the condition that the owner would not change the usage of the land which earlier was not planned.
The Federation of All Maharashtra Petrol Dealers’ Association had demanded the facility for the change of use only for Mumbai, as the city is facing acute shortage of land and the land prices are booming. Against which, the state government has issued the notification not only in Mumbai but all over the state.
Many social organisations had also requested the government not to allow any change on petrol pump land as the huge disparity in the ratio between petrol pumps and number of vehicles in the city limits is a factor definitely to be worried about. The Mumbai Taxi men’s Association too, had filed a writ petition in the Bombay HC regarding the issue. following the HC judgment,the government has decided that the land of petrol refilling stations should be used only for the designated purpose and in no case for any other purpose.
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