JUDGMENT :

T.R. RAVI, J.

1. The case of the petitioner is as follows:

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2. The petitioner owns 10.25 Ares of land in Re-Survey No. BL-4416 corresponding to old Survey No. 258/3 of Sasthamangalam Village. He submitted Ext.P2 application on 20.11.2018 before the 1st respondent for issuance of a building permit. The application was for construction of a 14 storeyed building of a total area of 6037.38M2. When no decision was taken by the 1st respondent on the application, the petitioner enquired about the cause for the delay and was informed that the area was earmarked as a commercial zone in the Master Plan of 1971 of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation (hereinafter referred to as MP 1971). The petitioner filed W.P. (C) No. 31626/2019, which was disposed of by this Court by judgment dated 05.12.2019 directing the Corporation to pass orders on the application for building permit in the light of the Interim Development Order (hereinafter referred to as IDO) which had been issued under Section 63 of the Kerala Town and Country Planning Act, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the 2016 Act), as per GO (MS) No. 180/2017/LSGD dated 11.9.2017. The Government Order has been produced as Ext.