Bangalore Land News Updates

BANGALORE: The Karnataka state supreme court on weekday directed the BDA commissioner to represent twenty three groups to hold out physical verification of unauthorized constructions in twenty three villages falling in Zone-3 of TG Halli reservoir geographical region.

Justice AN Venugopala Gowda directed the BDA to conduct the verification on Dec fourteen, 15 and 16, 2 of that area unit holidays, and to submit a report back to it on Dec seventeen, subsequent date of hearing.

• It’s not an enormous task. officers will do that even on holidays. The commissioner needs to represent twenty three separate groups for these twenty three villages underneath his jurisdiction, and that lie inside 1km on either facet of the banks of the stream Arkavathy, notified underneath Zone-3 within the notification dated Nov eighteen, 2003,” the choose discovered.

Earlier, the choose took the BDA to task for failing to in person serve notices underneath the Karnataka city and Country coming up with Act on unauthorized constructions, and suggesting they\'d undertake a paper publication instead.

• Are you thus helpless? You don’t have men and machinery? This court is at a loss to grasp the BDA’s problem in serving notices on such properties. The law needs personal service of notice. This paper publication exercise urged by BDA, the urban planning authority, isn\'t in conformity with the law,” the choose discovered.

The court was conjointly vital of the very fact that before the Nov 2003 notification, there have been thirty four units within the notified space and 137 came up within the ten years when the realm was declared as Zone-3.

• The purpose of the order was to get rid of the present thirty four units. Instead, you’ve allowed 137 additional units.This is not addition, it\'s multiplication, defeating the terribly purpose of the notification. This reflects terribly poorly on the administration and law-enforcing agencies,” the choose noted.

The court was conjointly not pleased with what the govt. was doing in these ten years, although a direction was issued by a division bench of the court to implement the notification. The court is hearing a batch of petitions difficult the notices issued to clear the alleged encroachments.

BMRC to submit details of contractors

A division bench headed by magistrate DH Waghela on weekday asked urban center railway Rail Corporation (BMRC) to submit details of contractors operating under that on the Namma railway project. BMRC was conjointly asked to submit details of sub-contractors, variety of labourers and workmen.

The bench gave this direction to form them parties within the PIL so as to carry them answerable for any violation of labour laws, because the steps undertaken by the authorities have didn\'t yield any tangible result because the contractors area unit being treated with child gloves.“Filing one or 2 cases doesn’t facilitate. Labour social control officers need to rely on their sub-contractors (subordinates).You submit the names of major contractors,” the bench discovered.

Earlier, Kalyan Basavaraj, assistant law officer representing the Centre, aforesaid cases were set-aside against contractors and licences of 3 contractors suspended for violation of norms. BMRC submitted there area unit nineteen major contractors and around four,500 workmen on website, which all workmen were issued ID cards and each accident documented- Indian Real Estate Reviews.

The petitioner’s counsel wise the court that each living and labour conditions still would like improvement. Sathya Samuel commie, a caseworker, filed the PIL complaintive that nobody is taking care of employees or their living conditions.