BANGALORE, June 18, 2013
Private builders carve up land into sites in collusion with officials
A surprise
inspection by officials on the Bangalore’s outskirts has unearthed
a major scam running to multiple crores, where close to 1,000 acres
of government land was grabbed by real estate mafia and sold to
hundreds of gullible people as sites.
Private builders
were found to have encroached upon 965 acres of land in the
Bannerghatta village panchayat limits, formed layouts and sold them,
an inspection by the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Bangalore
(Urban) in the panchayat limits covering 10 villages has concluded.
Tip of the
iceberg
“This
could just be the tip of the iceberg and we are continuing
inspections in other village panchayats falling under Bangalore
district,” said Deputy Commissioner of Bangalore District (Urban)
G.C. Prakash, who led the inspection, adding that the nature of the
scam was much bigger than what the inspection on Monday revealed. The
builders, in collusion with the village panchayat officials, created
illegal khatas to claim ownership of the government land. However,
they could not change the regular RTC (Record of Rights) from the
Revenue Department which clearly shows that the land in question
belongs to the government. Similar revelations of large-scale
government land encroachments were made earlier by the joint
legislature committees led by A.T. Ramaswamy and a task force for the
recovery of public land led by V. Balasubramaniyan.
Among the major
encroachers is the management of Champakdhama
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Land records fudged, 965 acres grabbed in Anekal
TNN
Jun
18, 2013, 04.07AM IST
BANGALORE:
Encroachment of huge tracts of government land - approximately to the
tune of 965 acres worth crores of rupees - has been unearthed in
Anekaltaluk, Bangalore Urban district. This was during a surprise
field visit by deputy commissioner GC Prakash and other revenue
officials on Monday.
"We have
found illegal transactions of land by local civic bodies like village
panchayats to private individuals who later formed private layouts
and sold housing plots to other individuals. The encroached lands
include lake beds, storm water drains, government lands and gomala
(grazing land). We even found that a property belonging to
Champakadhamaswamy temple, measuring over 26 acres, was transferred
illegally in the name of land-grabbers who later sold it to
individual site seekers in Anekal taluk," said Prakash.
Revenue officials
said the frauds were detected during inspection of two hoblis in the
taluk - Kasaba and Jigani. The records of villages coming under them
- Bannerghatta, Sampigehalli, Hulimangala, Vabesandra, Nandapura,
Hullahalli, Dhingipura, Dhootanahalli, Kallanayakana Agrahara,
Bilvaradahalli and Mantapa - were checked and largescale fraud
detected, revenue officials said.
They said there
was a lot of encroachment in Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), the
quantum of which can be given only after verification. The revenue
department has plans to inspect areas coming under Sarjapur and
Attibele hoblis of Anekal taluk next week.
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'965 acres of government land encroached'
By Express News
Service – BANGALORE
18th June 2013
09:52 AM
About 965 acres of
government land in the Green Belt area around Bannerghatta has been
encroached upon for illegal layouts. Following repeated complaints
about the violations, Bangalore Urban Deputy Commissioner G C Prakash
on Monday conducted a raid in Bannerghatta gram panchayat limits of
Anekal and found 794 illegal layouts.
Prakash told
Express: “Illegal constructions have come up in gomala (grazing)
land, on rajakaluve (main storm water drain) and gundlu topu
(forestry land), gramathana (village administered land) and kharab
(barren) land. Some layouts have been formed in just one acre, others
in three acres. I have ordered eviction of the same.’’
The raid that
started from 10 am went on till 3 pm. The DC had summoned panchayat
officials and revenue officers. Prakash pointed out that most of the
government land in Anekal taluk comes under the Green Belt. One such
case is encroachment of the land belonging to the Champakadhama
Temple.
According to
official figures, the temple should have 33 acres.
After several
encroachments, the temple presently has less then 5 acres. The
Bannerghatta Lake too has shrunk and there is no water, no storm
water drain and no culverts because of encroachments.
“I had asked for
the documents of the whole of Anekal, so that we can know extent of
the encroachment. I will initiate action on those who were involved
in these illegalities,” Prakash said.
Prakash said
government land was sold to builders in connivance with gram
panchayat officials. “This was resold to middle class people,” he
added.
‘Issue Notice to
Warn People’
More than 20,000
sites can be been formed in this encroached area. Officials have been
asked to issue a notice in newspapers warning public not to buy
revenue land, as it will have legal complications.
Around 34,000
acres of land in Bangalore Urban has been encroached as per the
reports of A T Ramaswamy Committee. While 17,000 acres were taken
back by various government departments, the district administration
has recovered 10,000 acres.
The remaining
7,000 acres are still encroached.
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