Illegal revenue sites to be regularised

Illegal revenue sites to be regularised
DH News Service,Bangalore:
A good news for revenue site owners across the State. The State cabinet on Friday decided to regularise unauthorised revenue sites and structures constructed on them by imposing penalty.



Briefing reporters about the cabinet decision, Minister Shobha Karandlaje said all illegal revenue sites, including houses constructed on them till December 31, 2008, will be regularised in the next six months. The penalty and other conditions, if any, for regularisation will be fixed shortly by a cabinet sub-committee headed by the Revenue Minister.

There are around five lakh unauthorised revenue sites in and around major cities, including Bangalore.

Unauthorised revenue sites are those that are formed mainly on agriculture land. Residential sites are formed after converting the agriculture land used for non-agriculture purposes. However, the cabinet decision will come into effect only if the State Legislature amends Section 95 of Karnataka Land Reforms Act and Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act. The government is tabling Bills in this regard in the Belgaum session to make a provision to regularise illegal revenue sites formed till December 2008. This means the present ban on registration of revenue sites, imposed by the then government in 2005, will continue. Revenue sites that are formed after January 1, 2009, and without taking necessary permissions, will not be regularised.

According to sources, the government’s move will not only earn the goodwill of people who were eagerly waiting for it, but also get huge revenue in the form of both penalty and stamp and registration fee.