Assembly adopts 12 Bills, including Land Revenue Bill that seeks to correct Kodagu land records

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The Karnataka Legislative Assembly connected Tuesday adopted 12 Bills, including the Karnataka Land Revenue (Second Amendment) Bill, 2025, which seeks to region anomalies successful the classification and attraction of onshore records successful Kodagu district, and the Karnataka Rent (Amendment) Bill.

Piloting the Karnataka Land Revenue (Second Amendment) Bill, Revenue Minister Krishna Byregowda noted that Kodagu had continued to run its ain accepted strategy of records adjacent aft 1964 erstwhile the Karnataka Land Revenue Act had travel into effect.

Under this pre-independent system, those who served the British successful their service had been appointed arsenic agents (Pattedars) to collect gross connected behalf of the British regime. However, the occupation started successful 2000 erstwhile Karnataka moved towards of digitization of onshore documents done the Bhoomi project, arsenic determination was nary parity betwixt the records nether the Bhoomi and the onshore records successful Kodagu, helium noted.

However, the past lawman commissioners of Kodagu had continued with the aged strategy by issuing notifications astatine their level which created successful further columns successful RTC that had entries for pattedars. This triggered ineligible issued implicit ownership of onshore arsenic determination was a request to clarify whether the onshore proprietor had implicit ownership oregon if it belonged to pattedars.

Hence, the authorities was present amending this authorities to supply for empowering tahsildars of Kodagu territory to clasp hearings and marque indispensable corrections successful the onshore records to bring them successful conformity with contiguous system.

The Karnataka Rent (Amendment) Bill would question to execute the rule of “Minimum Government Maximum Governance” by decriminalisation of insignificant offences and rationalisation of monetary penalties arsenic envisaged successful the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act 2023 (Central Act 18 of 2023).

The different Bills adopted by the Assembly included the Karnataka State Universities (Second Amendment) Bill that seeks to alteration the sanction of “Ranichannamma University” arsenic “Kitturu Chennamma University”, The Karnataka Labour Welfare Fund (Amendment) Bill, The Karnataka Cine and Cultural Activists (Welfare) (Amendment) Bill, and The Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments (Amendment) Bill.

The Malnad Area Development Board (Amendment) Bill, The Bayaluseeme Development Board (Amendment) Bill, Shree Chamundeshwari Kshetra Development Authority and Certain Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, The Chandraguthi Shree Renukamba Kshetra Development Authority Bill, and Sri Malai Mahadeshwaraswamy Kshetra Development Authority (Amendment) Bill were besides adopted by the Assembly.

Published - December 16, 2025 07:58 p.m. IST

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