Read this before you invest in Chennai. mail sent to authorities by Platina assn president
Dear Chennai Credai Members / All Govt Authorities,
Greetings from VGN Platina Owners Welfare Association
Reg. Notice copy received by us from Panchayat office - Reg. Unauthorised construction without approval / deviations
We are writing this letter on behalf of VGN Platina Welfare Association. The project is situated at Ayyapakkam village near Ambattur which was developed and sold by VGN Group.
Recently we received demolition notice from Ayyapakkam Village Panchayat alleging that VGN has constructed this project with full of violations and deviations from approved plans and the violations and deviations are listed in the notice. As per the notice VGN has constructed additional 1.5L sq. ft illegally over and above the approved area earning around Rs.50 Crores illegally. We have attached this notice for your reference.
Association sent a mail to Mr.Pratish, MD and other VGN officials on 29th July 2014 asking for explanation on the notice, but till now VGN has not bothered to give us a written reply but their officials are insisting orally that there are no violations and they are not willing to come with approval drawings for cross verification which clearly shows that they have cheated us conveniently hiding all the irregularities from us.
Further to our mail to VGN, Officials of VGN are saying they have high level contacts at CMDA and with other authorities and they will close this issue silently. VGN is threatening us to keep quiet to avoid unwanted consequences.
Now we are left with no other choice except to write to authorities. We do not want to accept our homes with irregularities and without proper approvals.
Over 670 families have invested our hard earned money in this residential project. We all trusted VGN and we bought our homes here but now we have been cheated and our future looks bleak and disastrous. We are all from lower middle class families who have put in all our current and future earnings in this project and it is fully VGN’s responsibility to abide by all the rules and regulations and handover the project without any irregularities and disputes. We are all shattered and could not believe that VGN could cheat us like this with such violations and deviations and take all customers and concerned authorities for granted
VGN has cheated all of us conveniently hiding behind their image, Money Power, Political Power, Authority and high level contacts. We were forced to accept poor quality construction, inordinate delays and arrogant behaviour of VGN Officials by intimidating us that they will not handover the flats if we do not pay the final payment. Those who questioned about the poor construction quality were threatened with court cases and hefty penalties.
We are being told that as per Supreme Court rulings in the Campa Cola case, this project is also eligible for demolition. We are now living with constant fear as to what will happen to our homes, what will happen to our life time investments incase of any demolition activities of the project.
We invite CREDAI Officials and All authorities also to visit VGN Platina to see all the violations.
As per the notice in the attachment, there is no approval for
1) STP - built without any approvals from TNPCB and CMDA on Panchayat road
2) WTP - built without any approvals
3) Commercial Complex – built without any approvals
4) Club House – built without any approvals
5) Entrance Arch – built without any approvals
….. and deviations are noticed in
1) Setbacks between flats – setback space been used to build additional 1.5 lakh sq.ft illegally
2) Septic tank – no septic tank is built in any building as per approval.
3) Closure of Panchayat Lake – water body has been converted to park without approvals
We now understand why VGN is refusing to give us all the approved drawings which we have asked several times in the past.
· Customers like us have been fooled, and the entire Government Authorities / Mechanism have been taken for granted.
· Many banks have provided home loans to customers in this project. Have bankers collided with the builder by not taking these violations seriously during their inspection to clear stage payments? How did the bank’s legal panel side-lined the deviated agreement drawings without verifying the approved drawings against each flat? How did the bankers give final payments to VGN without verifying the violations which were very evident?
· VGN has taken payment for covered car parking, but lot of us are not allotted covered car parking space. They are insisting us to take open car parking for the same cost.
· Most of us have not been given or shown approved drawing. They gave only the approval number.
Many Innocent customers have bought flats through CREDAI’s FAIRPRO property fair and we would like to know:
How a builder from CREDAI can cheat us like day light robbery?
Is CREDAI a Marketing Agent for all builders or governing body of all builders?
What kind of mechanism does CREDAI have in order to ensure that their member builders abide by CREDAI’s code of conduct?
How CREDAI is going to help us from this crisis?
How customers like us will be saved from fraudulent builders like VGN?
What action is CREDAI going to take against VGN?
We hope CREDAI will takes an ethical stand and take action against VGN and its promoters.
As mentioned in your website VGN Chairman Mr. Devadoass is the Vice President of CREDAI and we would like know whether VGN has signed The Code of Conduct? If they have signed how they can cheat 670 families so conveniently?
As per Supereme Courts order in Campa Cola case, if our project is demolished for all violations we request CREDAI and all other Authorities to help us recover all our investments at market rate from VGN and also suitable compensation for our sufferings.
We are writing this mail under distress and fear of life, since VGN is threatening us to keep quiet to avoid unwanted consequences
LOOK FORWARD FOR ACTION BY ALL AUTHORITIES.
KAMARAJ
VGN PLATINA OWNERS WELFARE ASSOCIATION
& on behalf of all committee members and owners