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Many flat dwellers successful Bengaluru, with gaps successful their documentation, person been moving from pillar to station seeking an A Khata for their B Khata properties, oregon trying to get inferior connections without an Occupancy Certificate (OC), nether the 2 ongoing schemes. Though flat dwellers are not the intended beneficiaries of either scheme, determination is nary clarity connected this, starring to confusion.
OC exemption offers small help
S. Lata, a level proprietor successful northbound Bengaluru, said her flat gathering did not person an OC and had nary inferior connection. “I hoped we would beryllium covered by the exemption from availing an OC for homes up to 2,400 sq. ft. But erstwhile I approached civic officials, I was told that not the flat, but the crippled size itself should beryllium little than 2,400 sq. ft. to avail of the exemption. This means nary flat dwellers volition payment from this scheme,” she said.
Following a December 2024 Supreme Court bid mandating an OC for inferior connections, lakhs of properties were stuck successful Bengaluru. To supply immoderate relief, the Karnataka authorities archetypal exempted buildings built connected 1,200 sq. ft. plots from the OC request and precocious relaxed it further to buildings built connected 2,400 sq. ft. plots. Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar announced the caller relaxation aft the archetypal furniture gathering helium chaired connected June 3. The bid says buildings with ground+3 floors oregon stilt parking+4 floors connected plots smaller than 2,400 sq. ft., with deviation of little than 20 per cent, volition beryllium exempted from availing an OC.
Property advisor K.R. Ramesh said a fewer smaller apartments with six to 8 units built connected 40x60 sites would benefit. “But according to the rule, these apartments tin lone person six units, but successful signifier they are built with 8 units. Those with six units connected 40x60 plots and nary OC volition present get inferior connections, but their numbers are fewer,” helium said.
B Khata flat dwellers near successful limbo
Meanwhile, respective apartments built connected gross onshore are B Khata properties. The Karnataka authorities is present converting B Khata plots into A Khata properties aft collecting a interest of 2 per cent of the guidance value. While the crippled is being regularised, the buildings connected them are not. However, flat plots are not covered nether this strategy either.
M.S. Shankar, of the Forum for People’s Collective Efforts, Karnataka, said helium lives successful a B Khata level successful Bhattarahalli, K.R. Puram, and the civic assemblage was not converting B Khata flats into A Khata. He argued that the authorities should instrumentality measures to get the Akrama-Sakrama scheme, which is stuck successful the Supreme Court, cleared truthful that galore homeowners get astatine slightest 1 accidental to regularise their properties.
K. Arun Kumar, wide caput of the Bangalore Apartments Federation (BAF), said the Karnataka authorities should halt actively discriminating against flat dwellers and supply them the aforesaid accidental arsenic autarkic location owners to regularise their properties.
Apartment Act stuck too
The BAF has been pushing for the Karnataka Apartment (Ownership and Management) Bill, 2025, to beryllium made into law, but truthful acold determination has been nary progress. Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar had promised to bring successful this law, and 2 metropolis MLAs person since written to him to fast-track it.
Currently, apartments are governed by 2 laws successful the state—the Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, 1972, and the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960—which person contradictory provisions, leaving overmuch confusion.
“The caller Bill has been successful the works for implicit 3 years now, and it is precocious clip it is made into instrumentality to extremity disorder successful the governance of apartments successful the state. We anticipation it is tabled successful the upcoming Assembly session,” Mr. Kumar of BAF said.
