View of the Koheda layout on the city outskirts in Hyderabad on Friday, July 26, 2024, The State Government says it is preparing to implement layout regularisation scheme (LRS) without causing any inconvenience to the people\
| Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal

The Telangana government has issued orders yet again extending the deadline for payment of fee with 25% rebate for the Layout Regularisation Scheme to May 31.

The government had already extended it twice, first to April 30, and then to May 4. The initial deadline ended on March 31 for the rebate scheme which was launched on February 20 this year.

As per the initial announcement, a 25% rebate was announced on the regularisation fee and open space charges if paid before the deadline, for the LRS announced in 2020. Applicants were given the option of paying pro-rata open space charges at the time of obtaining building permissions too, but they will have to be paid in full, without 25% rebate.

A total 25.67 lakh applications were received from across the State in response for LRS, when it was first notified in 2020. However, the applications were not actively processed, nor proceedings were issued, shelving the whole scheme for years.

The response for the rebate offer is not very enthusiastic. Only 5.19 lakh applicants availed the rebate up to April 30 deadline, which is a little over 20% of the total applications. The LRS proceedings were issued with respect to 40% of the applications for which fee payment was made.

Though the government hoped to collect ₹20,000 crore by way of the LRS fee payment, it could earn only ₹1,863 crore, achieving less than 10% of the targeted revenue.