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The PRR Farmers’ and Landlords’ Association (PRR Raitha Haagu Niveshanadarara Sangha) has petitioned the Karnataka Governor to scrap the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) Phase I, present renamed the Bengaluru Business Corridor (BBC), alleging that the strategy has lapsed nether the provisions of the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) Act, 1976, and that the compensation options offered to landowners were unjust.
In a memorandum submitted connected Monday, the relation said the BDA has failed to comply with Section 27 of the BDA Act, 1976, which stipulates that if nary grant is passed wrong 5 years of a scheme’s last notification, the acquisition proceedings lapse.
The relation noted that the last notification for PRR was issued connected June 29, 2007, and nary grant oregon possession has taken spot adjacent aft 18 years. It has sought the quashing of the task alleging that the BDA is proceeding with onshore acquisition contempt the strategy losing its ineligible validity.
Referring to a caller Government Order dated October 17, 2025, which directed the BDA to finalise awards for affected landowners by offering 5 compensation options, including currency payment, Transferable Development Rights (TDR), further Floor Area Ratio (FAR), developed residential land, and developed commercialized land, the relation termed the offers ‘an eyewash’ and ‘a fraud played connected farmers and landowners’.
It argued that currency compensation is undervalued since line values person not been revised since 2016. The BDA Commissioner wrote to the State authorities then, requesting that onshore rates nether PRR not beryllium increased, allegedly to trim acquisition costs.
“The TDRs deficiency a robust ineligible model and are prone to speculation and manipulation. The FAR incentives, introduced nether the caller argumentation successful February 2025, person mislaid value arsenic road-widening and municipality readying objectives stay unmet. Moreover, 40% developed residential plots arsenic compensation is calculated based connected outdated line values that neglect to bespeak existent marketplace rates and 35% developed commercialized onshore adjacent to the task country is legally untenable,” the relation said, pointing retired that lone the required 65 metres of onshore beryllium acquired alternatively of 100 metres.
It besides alleged that the BDA has failed to hole a Detailed Project Report, behaviour a Social Impact Assessment, oregon get biology clearance from the National Green Tribunal.
The farmers’ assemblage demanded that the Governor nonstop the BDA to amend its act, rectify law violations, and contented a No Objection Certificate to implicit 20,000 affected families if the authorities fails to bring indispensable reforms.
