Cousins, Uncles and Aunts
Not Allowed to Share Villa

Omar Mohammed Abdul Rahman, head of the Building Inspection Section at the civic body, said on Tuesday that relatives like cousins, uncles or aunts etc are not allowed to share a villa under the new ‘one villa-one family’ rule.

“Suppose there is a family consisting of a man, wife and a kid. The kid grows up to marry and sets up his own family. In this case, we’ll not consider it to be a different family and the whole family can stay in a single villa. But then, cousins, uncles, aunts etc cannot be called one single family,” he made it clear.

The official said that the rule applied to many families sharing a one villa. “This (many families sharing villas) has been the reason for illegal partitions, accidents and unhygienic environment,” the official said.

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