udhagamandalam nilgiris collector s p amrith has cautioned the public not to fall prey to real estate developers who are indulging in unauthorised plot layouts in the district he instructed that buildings should be constructed only after obtaining due permission from the authorities if any violation of the approved plan was found after the construction stringent action will be taken against the buildersowners he said the caution was issued on sunday in the wake of the collector receiving several complaints against development of unauthorized plot layouts on parcels of agriculture land in the nilgiris district the collector in a press release said at least 13 real estate owners were issued with stop work notice for developing plots on agriculture land in the hill district without proper permissionduring a drive to identify constructions of unauthorized buildings in the nilgiris as many as 57 buildings in the three municipalities ooty coonoor and gudalur were found as illegal while one unauthorised construction in a town panchayat and another one in a panchayat area and all the unauthorised buildings were sealed said the releasebesides a total 19 buildings in the three municipalities 31 in town panchayats and 30 in grama panchayats were constructed violating the building rules these constructions were too sealed by the authorities added the releaseas many as 81 buildings under residential licences were found used for commercial purposes formi notices were issued to violators it saidthe district level committee for building approval has rejected as many as 1207 building proposals in the initial stage itself after scrutinising the summaries issued by the forest agriengineering and geotech departments if the public or real estate owners were found indulging in illegal construction activities stern action will be taken under sections 47a 56 and 57 of the town and country planning act 1971 the collector said