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Thiruvananthapuram, June 11

The Kerala Government has extended the Municipal Building Rules to all its panchayats. Earlier, the rules were applicable to the corporations, municipalities and 184 panchayats in the State. As per the notification issued now, the rules will cover 815 more panchayats.

The Minister for Local Self Government, Mr Paloli Mohamed Kutty, said here on Monday that prior permission was not required to take up construction activities in these panchayats till now. But it had come to the notice of the Government that massive construction works were going on in the rural areas without any checks, posing a threat to the future development of the State.

With the rules in place, permission of the grama panchayats would be required to undertakeconstruction works panchayats, the Minister said.

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