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Property owners
under the limits of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) are facing
lot of confusion and hurdles in obtaining khatas from the BBMP. Khata basically
is an important property identification document issued by the local civic body
to recognize the ownership of a property in their limits. Khata
contains the details of property like name of the owner, dimension of
the plot or size of the building, location of the property and other details
which helps properly owners to file property tax. Apart from this khata is
required for applying for building licence, for trade licence, for loan from
any banks or financial institutions etc.,
In 2007
seven city municipal councils (CMC) Kengeri Town Municipal Council (TMC) and
110 villages, were brought under the administration of Bangalore Mahanagar
Palike (BMP). Thus, nearly 2/3rd area was added to the existing 1/3rd area
under BBMP. Only properties which were approved by the town planning
authorities and some other properties strictly conforming to the bye laws of
the BBMP have been issued ‘A’ Khata. For the remaining properties in the
newly added areas the owners can pay tax to BBMP and get the ‘B’ khata form.
According to BBMP there is nothing like ‘B’ khata, but it is only an extract of
the B register maintained by the civic authorities to make entries of the taxes
collected on the properties.
‘A’ Khata is
required to be obtained from the BBMP to recognize the ownership of a property
which makes the owners eligible to receive civic amenities extended to them.
But, most of the properties in the old CMC areas now coming under BBMP
have many disadvantages in getting ‘A’ khata as many irregularities pertaining
to land conversion, building bye law violations etc., are rampant in these
properties. To obtain ‘A’ Khata the land should be DC converted, owners should
have paid up to date tax and also paid betterment charges to the BBMP
pertaining to converted lands. All political parties promises the public about
‘Akrama – Sakrama’ scheme for regularizing unauthorized/building violation
constructions. But, nothing is happening in this regard till date.
The
Government must take concrete steps to mitigate the problems of property owners
in Bangalore city either by implementing the previously conceived scheme of
‘AKRAMA – SAKRAMA’ or other scheme, to regularize the property ownerships by
collecting one time penalty / fees, enabling the citizens to apply and obtain
‘A’ Khata for their properties.
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