Residents of Grozny are discontented with the activities of the Committee for inventory of buildings and pulling down illegal structures

An inter-departmental commission formed in Grozny is carrying out inspection of housing resources and making a data bank of the houses, their owners and tenants. Simultaneously, illegally built structures are being pulled down in the private sector. Residents of Grozny told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent that the goal of this campaign was to find a pretext for new extortions of money from the population.

Besides officials of municipal and regional administrations, the inter-departmental commission includes employees of community services, district police inspectors, specialists of cadastral register and land surveying as well as representatives of the clergy, an official of Mayor’s office of Chechen capital told us.

“Several thousand flats all in all were inspected in Grozny last week”, a source in Mayor’s office of Grozny informed.

A representative of Mayor’s office declared that all the structures within the city boundaries built during the recent years without the respective permission from the municipal authorities and violating the regulations of land-laws were subject to dismantling regardless of their destination.

“Last year my immediate relative built a small room in front of his house where he was going to open a store. Now they made him pull it down under the pretext that he should have first coordinated this with the administration, though if he offered a bribe he would not have encountered any problems”, resident of Grozny Isa B. says.