Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 2: Senior BJP leader and president of Baseball Association of J&K, Raju Sharma along with Architect Hardik Manawa and Structural Engineer Kimti Manawa (SDF Consultants) today met Mandeep Kaur, Commissioner Secretary, Housing and Urban Development Department (HUDD), J&K.
During the meeting, Raju Sharma and engineers of SDF Consultants told the Commissioner Secretary that investors are interested in funding projects in Jammu and Kashmir but they face challenges due to restrictive building bylaws.
“Comparisons with Punjab and Delhi reveal disparities, such as limitations on projections, lower FAR, and plot size requirements in J&K. Unlike Punjab, J&K lacks provisions for road width-based FAR allocation. Delhi’s regulations permit group housing on smaller plots with higher FAR and additional allowances for community needs, highlighting the inflexibility of J&K’s rules,” they added.
They said that the absence of provisions for studio apartments and less favourable conditions for residential plotted housing further underscore the need for J&K to revisit and align its building regulations with those of other regions to attract external investment and support development.
“Unlike as in the bye-laws of Uttarakhand, separate provisions have been proposed for the hilly and the plain regions of the state, no such provision exists in the Unified Building Bye Laws as applicable in J&K posing a major challenge for carrying projects in the hilly regions,” they further added.
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