hyderabad a day after acb sleuths booked a top hmda official for the second time on corruption charges it has come to light that it is the state government itself that is shy of fighting corruption this is revealed by the fact that several mechanisms were proposed to check graft in the civic bodies especially ghmc and hmda with particular reference to the town planning wingsapart from that measures were announced to curb the growth of unauthorized constructions as they were acting as feeders to the corrupt officials however nothing has moved in the last three and half years and the fight against corruption has remained only on paperto begin with municipal administration minister k t rama rao had in december 2016 announced in the assembly that the trs government would soon set up a town planning tribunal to deal with the cases pertaining to construction of unauthorized structures as thousands of cases were pending in various courts in the state leading to builders securing injunctions from courts and continue building their illegal structures6k pending cases but no tribunal yetaccording to sources it is the corrupt civic officials who would advise such builders to exploit legal loopholes and go ahead with their activity there are at least 6000 cases related to town planning unauthorised construction pending in various courts the tribunal was proposed to dispose off such cases and initiate action against errant builders and owners but till date the tribunal is yet to see the light of dayin order to check rampant corruption in various civic bodies the director of town and country planning dtcp under the municipal administration department had proposed putting in place common service rules that would enable the state to shunt out corrupt officials to remote areas at present there are separate service rules for ghmc hmda hyderabad metro water board and other municipalities because of which an employee working with one civic agency cannot be transferred to another agency the proposal was subsequently cleared by the cabinet subcommittee on municipal reforms but after that it received a quiet burialthe government is not even considering shifting top level corrupt officials in ghmc a senior town planning officer has been working in ghmc for several years though there were serious corruption allegations against him some builders associations also complained about him to the municipal administration minister last year despite all that this official got promoted s chandrasekhar founder of anticorruption enforcement forum told stoianother measure to put an end to unauthorized structures was linking property registration with building or layout approved plan as per this at the time of registration of a building or plot the developer has to produce a copy of the permission obtained from the civic body this would ensure that the builders do not raise illegal structures or floors nothing has moved on the ground on this even after two yearsquoting the example of tamil nadu where submission of a sanctioned plan is mandatory for registering a property the dtcp had proposed