Urban Property Ownership Records will help to pull out records of all the unaccounted properties in Bangalore and make it mandatory for property owners to pay taxes for their property.
Many people who seek bank loans to buy property in India are unaware of the fact that the property that they buy might have a stay order by the government. To make matters worse, even the sub-registrar is unaware of the exact number of registered properties in the city. Bangalore and many other cities in Karnataka have for long been facing problems pertaining to properties that are not in the account of the government agencies and for which people do not pay taxes.
Taking this into account and to curb this issue, the government of Karnataka recently initiated the Urban Property Ownership Record (UPOR) programme which will help them pull out records of all the unaccounted properties in Bangalore city and make it mandatory for everyone to pay taxes for their properties.
This programme has been implemented in Bangalore after its success in Shimoga, Mysore, Bellary and Hubli-Dharwad. Currently there are 16 lakh properties in Bangalore that are accounted for and another 5 lakh properties which are not accounted for in the government records.
The project has helped in identifying around 16.19 lakh properties in the city which will consequently be brought under the tax payment act. The project details of all the properties will be disclosed on a public platform which will further serve the government for various other purposes like marking of water and sewerage lines.
Apparently the police can also make use of this project by identifying crimes and the BBMP Bangalore can use it to map the assets and the issue of licences for optic fibre cables.
Currently the scheme will be initiated in 50 BBMP wards of the city consisting of 4 lakh properties. This scheme will be implemented through a public-private partnership model. The cost of the project is 9.48 crore rupees and the state government is providing 4.74 crore rupees.
In order to carry on with this project, the initial step would be to have a property identification (PID) number for every property in Bangalore. The unique PID will be issued by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).
It is estimated that in the upcoming years the project will help the BBMP collect about 3, 000 crore rupees in the form of property tax. It is expected that the PID will later be assimilated with the State Revenue Department’s Urban Property Ownership Record (UPOR) which will be implemented all over the state. The UPOR helped the government identify about 1.76 lakh properties, whereas the number of tax payers were just 1.2 lakh.
To make it even more convenient, the BBMP launched the geographical information system (GIS)-based PID which helped the civic body collect 1,200 crore rupees out of 11 lakh properties. This will also help the BBMP identify and map the slum areas and the government properties. Further, the PID will result in an increased collection of revenue by the BBMP and will result in transparency as well. A nominal fee will be charged to get a PID for your property, and bring it into record or to get a record upgradation.
Henceforth this contemporary initiation by the government is hoped to get some changes in property frauds and create excessive revenues by making people pay the approximate amount.
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Great! Now properties can be monitored under a Government agency..
After this, the number of crimes in the city as well as in real estate sector can be curbed..
It was a good initiative of introducing PID and it will make the work of estimating and collecting property tax in Bangalore very swift and trouble-free.
I have a site no 7at Belathur village at Lakshmaiah garden Maruthi layout near Kadugudi Bangalore 560067 Its dimension as per sale deed is 30×48 sqft. But actually it measures 30×40 sq ft. But we are paying annual property tax to BBMP Kadugudi for 30×48 sq ft and khatha has been issued by ARO Mahadevpura. PID no not yet issued to the properties. Query with the concerned was replied that they will address the owners to produce all the records with us, But till today nothing has been heard.
sir, i do not understand why property rates are going up every year in Bangalore and its surrounding despite no development activities in industrial (hardware), software (IT/BPO) and other allied ancillary units. Shifting of Domestic Airport and upgradation of International airport far away from Bangalore center, traffic chaos during peak hours, non availability of connecting transports from Bangalore center to peripheral areas, high cost of residential flats, individual houses, scarcity of labourers (both domestic, industrial and trading activities).
I have come across in central CBD and Peripheral Areas that once ancillary units which housed small scale industries all have now become money spinning marriage halls, convention halls, choultries etc. The garden area of bangalore and trees of bangalore have been reduced to thinner and thinner areas with development work of Airport, Metro rail system, Commercial Malls and Multi Plex Theatres. Everyday scores of news paper carries public auction of properties of commercial and residential defaulters in housing loans, business loans, and every civil court and metropolitan courts are filled with cases of cheating, money laundering, credit card payment defaulters, etc.
Hospital and Judiciary departments are the only two profitalble ventures that are making money and people loosing health, wealth and property (the three basic needs of human life) in Bangalore. No proper sanitary systems in revenue residential pockets, newly developed and approved layouts, sewarage systems, clogging of drainage water, pot holes no proper and easily commutable roads, non availability of good drinking water, even if you drill bore, you are not assured of getting borewell water, depletion of underground water supply, drying of lakes and rivers, piling of stenching garbages, fall of political administration due to infighting whether BJP, Congress of JDS.
Unsafety towards lonely senior citizens, abuse of power, non availability of electrical power despite high cost per unit charges, cheating and snatching of chains of individual women, burglary of houses, commercial jewellery shops during day and night time, atrocities on minority communities, high cost of food grains, vegetables, milk and transportation.
Please can any one clarify despite all these negative trends that have become order of the day, but still bangalore enjoying high price in land ??????????why why why?????????????????