BDA Bangalore
BDA identified 51 unauthorized constructions in the Vishwabharati Housing Co-operative Society in Hosakerehalli 80 Feet Road and started demolition of illegal buildings at 6am. Among them, nine property owners had obtained a court stay order. BDA launched a sudden demolition drive leaving many helpless owners in deep despair. Over 150 policemen were deployed to maintain [...] Continue Reading »
For the past three years, the BBMP and the BDA have been at loggerheads over the issue of building plan approvals and Occupancy Certificates (OC). The fight intensified after the elected body in the Palike came into being last year. The BBMP Bangalore has drawn up a list of 583 buildings within the BBMP limits, [...] Continue Reading »
Eighty five year old, freedom fighter K Ramachandra struggle for BDA site. He was nominated by Gandhi Bhavan for a site allotted for freedom fighters in 2008. After two years, he explained that his site was still part of a stretch of land which was fast turning into a garbage dump. He had been unable [...] Continue Reading »
The illegal encroachments have been found in the villages of Dasanapura Hobli, Dombarahalli, Heggadadevanapura and Makali villages. Rampant encroachments around the Tippagondanahalli (TG Halli) reservoir are also largely responsible for the poor inflow of water, says the BWSSB Bangalore. The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has now identified 57 encroachments and slapped notices on them to [...] Continue Reading »
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has found a series of lapses on the part of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) in preventing pollution in the Bangalore Metropolitan Area (BMA). CAG report nails KSPCB, BDA, BWSSB & KPCL. According to the report for the financial year 2010 tabled in the Assembly, [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP give an option to the builders either leave open spaces or pay market value As if the dwindling tree cover is not enough, it is an open invitation to expand the concrete jungle that Bangalore is becoming. The BBMP has given an option to the builders of apartment complexes either leave 10% for open [...] Continue Reading »
BDA will give flats, not sites-To start with, the agency plans to build apartment complexes in the proposed Kempe Gowda Layout. A formal proposal focusing on vertical development of the city has been sent to the urban development department. All these years, its brief was to develop layouts and allot sites in Bangalore city. Now, [...] Continue Reading »
Build or lose your vacant sites in Bangalore. Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) will soon issue notices to allottees who had left their sites vacant even five years after purchasing them. It will inform them that if construction has not taken place in vacant spaces even five years after their allotment, the agency has the legal [...] Continue Reading »
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) to submit a report on its land acquisitions for forming layouts. Justice DV Shylendra Kumar while hearing a batch of petitions pointing out the lapses in acquiring land for Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda Layout, asked BDA to submit report on its land acquisitions. The [...] Continue Reading »
Karnataka State Government assured the High Court that it will not carry out midnight drives to demolish unauthorized constructions in the City. The affidavit submitted by the Advocate General Ashok Harnahalli to the Court said the government had issued a circular to all city corporations and municipal corporations in the State directing them on the [...] Continue Reading »
