BDA continues hearing with landowners

BDA continues hearing with landowners

The Hindu

Officials confident of meeting court deadline of March 25

BANGALORE: The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) says that it is on target to meet the March 25 deadline of listening to the complaints of landowners and revenue site owners who raised objections to land acquisition of the 20,000-site Arkavathy layout.

Of the 2,750 acres notified for the layout, nearly 748 acres are in dispute and it is regarding these lands that the High Court had ordered the BDA to hear the owners. It has given the BDA time till April end to resolve the issue with these people. BDA officials said they are confident that the allotments will be on schedule and that there will be no reduction in the size of the layout. "We have spoken to a lot of landowners and are positive that we will get all the land that we need for the sites. Otherwise, we will reduce our own sites but we wont cut down on the public share," says a BDA official. The BDA said that to prevent flooding in HSR and Pai Layouts again, it has commissioned the construction of two large box drains in the area. One box drain will be placed across the Outer Ring Road to drain water from the area.