Bangalore Development Authority
The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in Bengaluru have come under a lot of fire recently for inefficiency in dealing with many things, including property tax collection, the B-Khata confusion, the garbage problem and corruption. It is no surprise then that Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, in a meeting with MLAs, [...] Continue Reading »
The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has decided to increase the prices of two- and three-bedroom flats at the seven housing projects it has taken up in the City. It has cited the increased cost of construction as the reason. A senior BDA official said that the prices of flats already constructed at Kommaghatta, Alur, Kanminike [...] Continue Reading »
The Bangalore Development Authority has gone ahead and denotified seven acres of land in the controversial site itself. On Saturday, the allottees association also shot off a letter to the chief minister Siddaramaiah. He happens to be the chairman of BDA and also demands a CBI intervention into the issue of denotification. There are survey [...] Continue Reading »
Crossing the Ring Road is a nightmare for pedestrians because of heavy vehicular movement throughout the day, as per the residents. Somashekhar, secretary of the HBR Layout 5th Block Welfare Association said, to cross the ring road one needs at least 20 minutes. In and around the locality there are numerous schools, temples and markets. [...] Continue Reading »
After sites, it’s now the turn of flats to become costly. The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has hiked the prices of flats by almost 100%-200%, which is being held responsible for crushing the dreams of the common man to buy their own home in city. BDA is planning to sell its 2BHK flats of its [...] Continue Reading »
The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) informed the Karnataka high court that in residential areas having roads less than 40 feet wide roads, no commercial or ancillary land use will be permitted. This was announced by the BDA counsel in a hearing of a PIL challenging the revised master plan 2015. It was actually in response [...] Continue Reading »
After a waiting period of nearly a decade, the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) may have some good news for the AAM AADMI. The authority plans to invite applications for 5,000 sites in Kempegowda Layout from March this year. In an announcement by Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah, “BDA has acquired 2,000 acres of land and started developing [...] Continue Reading »
Land acquisition for infrastructure or industrial development projects may become a smoother and more rewarding process in days to come with the new land acquisition law coming into force. The new law, “The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013,” has stricter norms and higher compensation for land [...] Continue Reading »
At least 57 plots developed by the BDA are in a state of confusion, because the titles have been snatched from the owners. The BDA had denotified plots sizing a total of 10 acres. The land is described as ‘muffet kaval’ which means it is government owned. But after denotification, the land ownership was transferred [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore Development Authority has dropped plans to take up “golden quadrilateral” project under PPP model due to financial crunch. BDA has decided to put on halt the much waited 25 kilometres elevated road corridor project. The project was to be taken under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. According to sources, the corridor would link Hebbal-BRV ground-Hennur-Central [...] Continue Reading »
