Consumer Redressal

Bhubaneswar Development Authority silent on illegal buildings BHUBANESWAR: BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation\'s strong posturing against illegal flats at Campa Cola Compound in Mumbai hogged national limelight, but back here more than 4,000 unauthorized buildings continue to stand tall despite being slapped with demolition orders. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its latest report, tabled in the assembly on Monday, on general and social sector for 2012 pointed out that orders for razing 5,687 structures in the city were issued between 1988 and 2012. However, Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has not touched 4,025 of them even five years after the orders were issued. The BDA didn\'t bulldoze 84 buildings between 2001 and 2011 because of inaction of its enforcement wing, CAG pointed out. Similarly, 73 buildings in Cuttack were not pulled down despite demolition orders, the audit watchdog added. CAG said cases have been filed against 19,846 unauthorized cons