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The Urban Development Department, Government of Karnataka, has scheduled a dialog betwixt the Bangalore Apartments’ Federation (BAF) and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar connected December 13 astatine the Banquet Hall successful Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru.
BAF President Satish Mallya said the gathering is being held successful pursuit of the federation’s demand, made connected December 2, for tabling the Karnataka Apartment (Ownership and Management) Bill, 2025 during the wintertime league of the State legislature successful Belagavi.
An invitation has been issued to flat owners to enactment successful the interaction.
The BAF has urged the State Government to update the ‘archaic’ Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, 1972 to extremity the administrative chaos and litigation caused by the deficiency of wide absorption and ownership rights.
On December 2, Satish Mallya had said: “Implementing a broad ineligible model for flat owners has been BAF’s superior request for years, a committedness some the Congress and the BJP included successful their manifestos. With two-and-a-half years having elapsed since the Congress took power, this is nary longer a specified request, but an urgent legislative demand. The delay, the ineligible vacuum, and the deficiency of clarity person severely impacted lakhs of homeowners who merit protection.”
Some of the cardinal provisions nether KAOMA are a wide transportation of spot rights and undivided stock (UDS) from builders oregon promoters to owners, strengthening owners’ associations with wide enactment rules, registration mechanisms, and enforcement powerfulness for bylaws, establishing a dedicated, clear, and swift mechanics for resolving conflicts, including provisions for amalgamation and redevelopment to negociate ageing flat complexes effectively, and a consolidating governance nether 1 almighty Act (KAOMA) alternatively of relying connected fragmented, aggregate laws.
