Hosakerehalli villagers want a park and bus stand instead.
The high court on Thursday restrained the state government and the BBMP from making any construction or allotment at survey number 7 in Hosakerehalli village in Uttarahalli South taluk. It also issued notices to Rajarajeshwarinagar MLA M Srinivas and the state government in this regard.
YH Srinivas filed a public interest litigation in the high court, alleging that on June 10, 2010, MLA M Srinivas sent an application to the chief minister asking for allotment of land in survey number 7 measuring 7 acres in Hosakerehalli village in Uttarahalli South taluk, stating that citizens in his ward wanted to build a park and a bus stand in the government land.
On November 28, 2011, Srinivas asked DC, Bangalore urban, to release Rs50 lakh from MLA’s quota towards the development of the land and to get the work done through BBMP.
On February 3, 2012, the assistant revenue officer issued a letter to Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development to utilise Rs50 lakh from the MLA fund for the development of survey number 7 into a residential layout for allotment of sites without the sanction plan from the authorities concerned. On September 21, 2012 construction started after naming the land as Srinivas Nagar. Construction of the residential layout using tax payers money is illegal, the petitioner contended.
Let Chawla help: HC
The high court on Thursday directed the state government to make Rajeev Chawla, principal secretary, department of public enterprises, to be part of a project to design and install a software to prevent registration of sites in unauthorised layouts in Bangalore and surrounding areas.
Chawla, who was formerly with the revenue department as principal secretary, Bhoomi and Urban Property Ownership Records, was present in the court during hearing on September 27, 2012. He said the state government can use IT infrastructure to end formation of unauthorised layouts around the city and alienation of sites in such layouts already formed. The court then directed Chawla to prepare a report. Chawla filed his report in the high court on Thursday.
In the report Chawla said the legal framework that can be used to control illegal layouts is already in place as per the circular issued by the revenue department on April 6, 2009. “An appropriate software has to be designed and installed in civic bodies like the BBMP, gram panchayats and sub-registrar offices to implement the circular. The software has to be used by offices for the generation of khata certificates. Khata certificates should get uploaded on the internet thought official websites. The software would then be able to check the legality of the site. After registration, khata certificates should be electronically made available to the town planning authority and tahsildar to confirm the content of the certificate. The development of the software will not take more than a month. No additional hardware would be required at the offices as these offices already have the required IT infrastructure,” he stated in the report.
HC asks Tirumala trust to demolish building
The high court asked Tirumala Education Trust (TET) located in Chikka Adugodi to demolish the 4th and 5th floors of the trust building in 10 days starting from Friday since it is constructed in violation of building by-laws.
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