Flat owners who were not able to shift by the end of Thursday were told to give an undertaking stating that they would need more time to shift all their remaining furniture.
The deadline set for the residents of the four apartment complexes in Ernakulam’s Maradu area to vacate their flats ended on Thursday and according to the district administration, 243 flats out of the total 326 have been vacated. The four apartment complexes in Maradu have been ordered by the Supreme Court of India to be demolished for violating the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms. According to a report by the Times of India (ToI), flat owners who were not able to shift by the end of Thursday were told to give an undertaking stating that they have moved out from the flats but that they would be needing extra time to shift all their remaining furniture. As per the report, a resident from one of the apartments was quoted as saying, “Agents from Mattancherry and other places came to buy second hand goods. One of the flat owners sold off five 1.5 tonne air conditioners for Rs 40,000. Some of the residents did not even bother to bargain and they sold off their belongings at whatever rate demanded by the agents.” The residents who have shifted to their relatives’ houses are reported to have hired warehouses to store all their furniture and belongings. The apartments will be handed over by the district administration to the agency that will be demolishing the buildings by October 9, and the demolition process will begin on October 11. The four apartment complexes of Jains Coral Cove, Golden Kayaloram, H20 Holy Faith and Alfa Serene that have been ordered for demolition, had received the permission for construction before 2005, that is, when Maradu was a gram panchayat. It was upgraded to a municipality in November 2010. Each apartment is estimated to cost between Rs 50 lakh and Rs 1.5 crore. It was in May earlier this year that the Supreme Court ordered the demolition of the apartments for violating CRZ norms. However, the decision of the court had raised several questions as to whether the flat owners - many of them aged and retired – were aware of such norms. The verdict was issued following an appeal filed by the Kerala State Coastal Zone Management Authority (KSCZMA).
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