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Of the full 2410 acres of onshore required for the Bengaluru Business Corridor (BBC) project, Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has till day acquired a specified 308 acres, achieving 12.7% progress, each of it on the Tumakuru Road - Ballari Road stretch.
However, landowners successful different stretches of the task person rejected the five-option compensation bundle offered by the BDA and are inactive holding out, and the impasse continues adjacent arsenic Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D.K. Shivakumar precocious announced that the task volition beryllium completed successful a twelvemonth and a half.
Farmer person Kodihalli Chandrashekhar said that the five-option bundle was unfair to farmers. They were acceptable to springiness up their lands lone if offered currency compensation nether the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency successful Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. “The farmers were not consulted earlier offering this five-option package. This is undemocratic. We request that the authorities sermon with the farmers and get astatine a mutually accepted compensation package,” helium said.
Five options for compensation
BDA has announced a five-option compensation package, which includes currency compensation, the terms for which has been fixed village-wise, equivalent residential plots successful Dr. K. Shivaram Karanth Layout oregon different layouts coming up on PRR, equivalent commercialized sites successful a 65:35 ratio on PRR, and Transferable Development Rights (TDR) astatine the residential tract worth oregon FAR connected their adjoining remaining onshore on PRR.
Suresh, a husbandman who would suffer 2 acres of his onshore successful Gattahalli, said the BDA was acquiring much onshore than was required for the roadworthy and giving backmost a information of the onshore arsenic “developed land”. “This is simply a scam. Let the BDA get lone what is required for the roadworthy by paying compensation arsenic per the 2013 instrumentality and instrumentality the remainder of the onshore to us,” helium said.
What is marketplace value?
Sources successful BDA claimed they were offering compensation arsenic per the 2013 law, but their mentation is wherever the farmers and they differed. “The 2013 instrumentality prescribes 3 times the marketplace worth successful agrarian areas and 2 times the marketplace worth successful municipality areas arsenic compensation. But however to determine the marketplace worth is the question. Farmers flaunt random merchantability deeds with astronomical prices, but we cannot spell by that,” a elder authoritative said.
Guidance worth suppressed
However, farmers said this statement was misleading. While pointing retired that the guidance worth was not the marketplace worth of the land, they said the guidance worth of their lands was artificially suppressed to contradict them just compensation. Based connected a 2023 missive from BDA, the Department of Stamps and Registrations reverted the guidance worth of lands notified for PRR to 2016 levels. “This is amerciable and was lone done to contradict america just compensation. Now BDA claims to springiness compensation 3 times this artificially suppressed guidance value, which is unacceptable,” said different onshore loser Jagadish Reddy, successful Varthur.
Mr. Reddy suggested that the BDA alternatively opt for a onshore pooling method, notify an interaction portion of astir 500 m, and reconstitute each onshore holdings. In this method, each onshore owners volition get backmost 80% of their lands, and BDA does not request to walk immoderate wealth connected acquisition.
However, a elder authoritative said that determination was a spot shortage betwixt farmers and BDA implicit the project, and onshore pooling volition not enactment successful specified an environment. He said that onshore pooling would mean notifying different 5000 acres, convincing each onshore owners of those lands and the task would beryllium inordinately delayed.
Instead, L. K. Atheeq, chairman, Bengaluru Business Corridor Ltd., said, “We are perpetually successful interaction with landowners and husbandman organisations who are speaking to america astir compensation. We deliberation the TDR is precise generous arsenic we are giving it astatine the developed tract value, adjacent for cultivation land. Farmers request assurance that TDRs volition beryllium issued successful a hassle-free process and that determination is simply a transparent integer exchange. We are assuring farmers that we volition marque TDR contented a creaseless process”.
