A-khata for individual sites on erstwhile Panchayat CMC Areas

The latest buzz is that BBMP is accepting betterment charges for individual sites in a layout (non BDA approved) provided it is DC converted and has a panchayat or cmc khata.  On payment of the  betterment fees, you can obtain BBMP A-Khata.  This is a confirmed news from BBMP Bommanhalli office.  Other BBMP offices too would be doing the same.  So now people can end their years of wait with B-Khata and get A-khata, building sanctions and home loans.  Also, pls dont approach any agents or brokers.  They will cheat you.  Directly walk into the office.

Sakrama hearing again adjourned for next year - bkhata, revenue sites, building voilations have to wait

Sad news for all the people who are waiting for Sakrama in 2011.  It has again been adjourned and the next hearing date is not available.  Looks like it is going to come up by March 2012. The interest is slowly reaching its bottom with the none of the parties taking active interest.  Even media is not reporting Sakrama.

Sakrama hearing adjourned to 24 th October 2011 - again as usual

Sakrama hearing has been adjourned to 24th October 2011 as usual.  There is a hidden hand behind getting this postponed so many times.  Probably these guys want to enter the guiness book of world records for maximum adjournment.  Guys, havent u hear of saying "justice delayed is justice denied". hmmm  proabably there needs to be judicial reforms?  lakhs of people are waiting with b-khata and there is no movement in this direction to regularise any of those.  When the condition of middle class is so bad, I pity the poor. No wonder Naxalism has its own benifits.

Sakrama hearing postponed again for the nth time to 22 August 2011

The high court has postponed the sakrama hearing to 22nd august 2011 as usual.  From sources it is learnt that there are vested interests preventing the dismissal of the case and employing delaying tactics.  Looks like some hidden powers are acting who do not want sakrama to be implemented by the current government. 

Any guesses on who these powers could be?  Who ever it is, it is the common people who are still having B-Khata who cannot get loan and building sanctions that are suffering.  They are forced to stay on heavily rented properties like (15k for 2bhk).  But looks like the common dont mind this suffering, because I dont even see a single comment on any of the blogs expressing any concern.

Sakrama hearing on June 20th

Sakrama hearing is scheduled for tommorow June 20th 2011.  Lets wait and watch what the outcome is.  Whether the court is going to dismiss the petition off or again going to extend it to the next hearing some months later?  Either way middle class is getting frustrated over the frequent delays and are expecting a quick resolution from the government/governor/judiciary.  This will help obtain khatas and other necessary document for lakhs of properties in bangalore.

Highcourt Sakrama review on April 11 2011

The high court has given time for the BJP govt to come forward with proper soloution to the akrama sakrama schema.

Now the ball is the BJP governments court as to what its stand is and how serious they are in vacating the stay.  Hope the government does it home work and get the stay vacated as soon as possible.

Sakrama and its relevance

What is Sakrama? - It is supposed to be a one time regularisation program to allow people who have purchased and built properties in Bangalore and other towns in Karnataka on unauthorized sites/layouts (mostly poor and middle class people) as well as the ones who have building violations on either approved or unapproved sites.  According to the rules in Bangalore, no authority other than BDA, BMRDA, BMICPA, BIAPPA have the authority to sanction residential layouts in the city ( I am going to call it the Big B's).  But it is seen that there a lot of sites/ layouts without the approval of the authorites mentioned above exists.  Erstwhile CMC's and Panchayats did not have permission to approve layouts.  However, it is seen than quite a good number of propertites in Bangalore are unauthorised as they did not have approval from Big B's.  It was much easy for a layout develper to get permission from  a CMC or Panchayat.  Also residential layouts approved by Panchayats did not have to set beside 50% of the space to open areas, parks, roads etc as against the rules by Big B's.  Also many of the layouts have not done a DC conversion (process of converting the land from agricultrual to non agricultural which is the first step for a a layout approval).

Well, isnt it boring to hear just about unauthorized sites and layouts.  Ok!! got you.. so lemme introduce to you to - "Building Violations".  I am sure every bangalorean would have heard of Building violation.  It is been said that majority of the buildings in bangalore have violations from the actual plans.  These includes residential (apartments, individual homes, row houses) as well as commercial buildings like hospitals, hotels malls etc). Again these structures that have violated may be on authorised or unauthorised sites.

Sakrama was introduced by Kumaraswamy govt (JDS) in 2007, However do to various reasons it has not been implemented as of now.  The current BJP govt is trying its level best to implent it, but is not able to fully succeed due to various reasons. This will be mentioned in abother blog.

So as of now that is in August 2010 it is said that there are 8 lakh properties eligible for amnesty under Sakrama (either under unauthorised sites or building violations).  This is substatantial number - aint it?  And also this is growing more rapidly in number than our  economy itself... What was 3 lakh in 2004 has become more than 8 lakh in 2010.   And if the Sakram program doesnt get implemented, it will reach 12 lakhs in 2012.


It has been almost 3 years since the Sakrama initially came out.  Till now there has been no implementation.  Fights among political parties, governors intervention, citizens groups involvements and a whole lot of issues have prevented this from formally becoming a law.

The need for Sakrama - Not everyone in Bangalore was lucky enough to get a BDA site.  We all know that when BDA develops a layout, more than half of them are reserved for special category, politicians, ex service men, socially backward, etc.. It has been seen that only the very lucky and influential people do get it.  That puts the remaining middle and lower middle class at the mercy of developers of such unauthorised properties.  It is high time that the governments (including all the major political parties in Karnataka) passes this resolution.  This will benifit the normal people in regularising their property.  Only with a regularised property can one obtain bank loans for construction.  At this point of time even reseeling a site for personal emergency like daughters wedding or something like that is impossible.  The politicians seem to be not bothered and fighting against each other without speeding up this process.  Also Sakrama has another benifit of reducing the market prices and making the properties accessible to a lot of people.  For eg:, a bda site in a place like bannerghatta road costs approx 1 crore + for a 60 * 40. But the regularised sites would be at a much lower price making it accessible to common man. 

Like Karl Marx one said "Workers of the World Unite", I would like to say that "Common People of  Karnataka Unite" and force the government to push this law.