Karnataka High Court
BENGALURU: The high court has burned down as unconstitutional the allocation of houses/sites of the Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) under two sections of “persons in public life” engraved within the 10 percent discretionary quota. Beneath category A, 25 percent of the discretional quota sites were placed at the conclusion of KHB, to be administered to [...] Continue Reading »
The Government served notice regarding KMC Amendment by a Division bench chaired by the Chief Justice D H Waghela Recently, a PIL was filed in the Karnataka High Court challenging the insertion of MLAs, MPs, MLCs and Zilla Panchayat Presidents in the MPC or Metropolitan Planning Committee claims to be unconstitutional. After hearing the case, [...] Continue Reading »
On Thursday, the Karnataka High Court came to the conclusion that the BBMP should give back the lands to UAS. The Chief Secretary carried out the task of asking the BBMP to stop constructions on the road between Yeshwantpur and Yelahanka which goes through the University of Agricultural Sciences. After hearing the petition which was [...] Continue Reading »
Good news for residents of group housing and private layouts! The builders will have to develop the sites allocated for the civic amenities and then have to hand over to the registered residents’ welfare association for the maintenance. The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) have to make sure that the civic amenities sites are handed over [...] Continue Reading »
To find out the actual waste generated in the city, the Karnataka High Court ordered the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to make an arrangement to measure all garbage collected from the city. The weighing of garbage should be conducted from 1st of February for 30 days and the weighing mechanism will be placed at [...] Continue Reading »
Civic society members have raised their concerns on the constitution of the ward committees and transparency in their functioning as the Karnataka High Court directed the BBMP to form ward committees before 21st January. An NGO in association with several RWAs, had called for a workshop on ward committees. A higher official from Bruhat Bengaluru [...] Continue Reading »
The Subramanyapura lake in Uttarahalli, which was left unnoticed for nearly five years, will now get a new life and the recovery work will be done by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in association with other civic agencies and government bodies. Higher official of BBMP visited that lake and found that the lake was illegally [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has submitted a report on the amount spent on garbage disposal, including salaries paid to pourakarmikas. They have spent Rs 25,708 lakhs on salaries of pourakarmikas, health inspectors and vehicles in the last four years, according to BBMP. Last week, the High Court asked BBMP to furnish this information. At [...] Continue Reading »
Justice and Acting Chief Justice of High Court of Karnataka said that lack of logic in land laws is encouraging land mafia, mainly in urban areas. The existing Land Acquisition Act is the biggest enemy of the common man which has only encouraged land mafia through legislation. High Court Justice said that laws related to [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore – The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has allotted ‘G’ category sites to 22 people, of which most of them are politicians, which is in violation with the Karnataka high court’s order. ‘G’ category sites are BDA sites that are allotted under the chief minister’s discretionary quota. As per the court order passed on Dec [...] Continue Reading »
