Buying property made hassle-free

Buying property made hassle-free
The Times of India

Bangalore: Buying a property and pondering over how to go about it? Want to know whom to approach for sanctions and whose jurisdiction does the area come under? Here are the answers you always wanted to know.

To give a further push to revenue department’s order to streamline the registration of properties and layout approvals, the urban development department has defined the jurisdiction of the local planning authorities situated within the Bangalore metropolitan area.

“It is a ready reckoner for the sub-registrars, planning authorities and the people. Every single detail about the jurisdiction of the villages, towns, taluks and districts have been detailed,’’ sources said. Lack of information about the jurisdiction is a major problem hounding property buyers. “Majority of them are confused over the jurisdiction under whom the properties are situated. Hence defining the jurisdiction will not only help the property buyers but also curbs overlapping of powers,’’ sources explained.

The Bangalore metropolitan area includes Bangalore urban and rural districts falling under the jurisdictions of Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), Bangalore International Airport Planning Authority (BIAPA), Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Area Planning Authority (BMICAPA), Magadi planning authority, Nelamangala Planning Authority, Kanakapura planning authority, Ramanagara-Channapatna urban development authority and Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority.

With the government making the issuance of release certificate — the authorisation given by a competent authority to a private developer to sell the property — mandatory for the private layouts, the defining of the jurisdiction has been timely.

The BDA, which is empowered to sanction layouts, building plans and issue release certificates has under its jurisdiction as many as 533 villages, towns and hoblis including the city and town municipal councils around Bangalore. Similarly, the
BIAPA has under it 248 towns and villages which fall under he jurisdiction of Devanahalli, Bangalore north and Doddaballapur taluks.

As many as 193 villages coming under Bangalore urban and rural, Mandya and Mysore districts fall under the BMICAPA. This includes 140 villages falling all along the expressway. Magadi planning area has 170 villages coming under its jurisdiction, Nelamangala planning area has 40 villages, Kanakapura planning area has 16 villages and Ramanagara-Channapatna urban development authority has 26 villages and taluks.

For instance: Majority of the private layouts that have come up in the periphery obtain approvals from the gramatanas much against the rules. As per law, it is either the BMRDA or the BDA which have powers to approve the layouts and building plans. Hence these layouts do not have clear titles and always face a threat of action by the government.