Multistoreyed buildings which do not have no objection certificates from fire services department and Airport Authority of India will not get authorised.
An ordinance titled AP Rules for Penalisation of Unauthorised Constructions 2007 will be issued within 10 days for regularisation of illegal constructions.
"Unlike the voluntary dis closure scheme of 1998, this is compulsory," said municipal administration minister, Mr Koneru Ranga Rao, after the cabinet meeting.
The minister defended the decision to regularise even totally illegal constructions. "What is wrong in it?" he asked. "We cannot demolish lakhs of structures."
Principal secretary (municipal administration), Mr S.P. Singh, said the expert committee had given special emphasis to the quantum of fines to be imposed for each violation.
The High Court had rejected the earlier penalty suggested by the committee (Rs 20 to Rs 40 per sq ft) as inadequate and directed it to impose exemplary fines which would operate as a deterrent.
In another major decision, the cabinet okayed the AP Regulation of Unapproved and Illegal Layout Rules 2007, which will be applicable to all UDAs, corporations, municipalities and gram panchayats.
The penal rate for regulation of unapproved layout/plot is equivalent to conversion charges. In addition to the penal amount, the applicant has to pay layout fee, betterment charges, development charges and land-use conversion charges.
Information and public relations minister, Mr A. Ramnarayan Reddy, said after the cabinet meeting that the government would amend HMC Act of 1955, AP Municipalities Act, AP Municipal Corporations act and AP Urban Areas (Development) Act