No industries in lands for civic amenities: HC

No industries in lands for civic amenities: HC
Vijay Times

Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on T uesday restrained indiscriminate use of lands, earmarked particularly for civic amenities, residential and other purposes in the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP), to set up industrial areas .

Justice V Gopal Gowda also held the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) had no power to make use of lands, earmarked for a specific purpose in the CDP , for industrial purposes without a seeking revision of the CDP .

The court also observed the area earmarked for a specific purpose in the CDP by the planning authority remains as such on record but practically the same area would be put to use for different purposes if the KIADB was allowed to declare an area as "industrial area" without seeking permission for change of land use, the Court said.

U se of land other than the purposes earmarked in the CDP would be contrary to Act.

The order was passed on a petition challenging the acquisition of land by the KIADB to allot it to a private company to establish an Information T echnology Park near Outer Ring Road, K R Puram.

Petitioned: T oeing the line of some residents in Koramangala, a few residents of Sadashivnagar moved the High Court on T uesday complaining that residential properties are being used for commercial purposes.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph and Justice S Abdul Nazeer issued notice to the Bangalore City Corporation among others.