Bengaluru: The State Cabinet has reduced the penalty to be paid by residents for regularisation of unauthorised houses constructed on government (revenue) lands on the peripheral limits of urban and rural areas in the state.
Under the Akrama-Sakrama scheme, the Cabinet has fixed the penalty at Rs. 5,000 for regularisation of house construction on 20×30 sq. ft sites in urban areas. Earlier it was fixed at Rs 10,000. The Cabinet has also decided to reduce the penalty to Rs 2,500 for SC/STs for the regularization of house construction on 20×30 sq.ft sites in urban areas.
For rural areas
The Cabinet meeting has also fixed the penalty at Rs. 1,000, Rs 2,000 and Rs. 5,000 for houses constructed on 30×40 sq. ft, 40×60 sq. ft, and 50×80 sq. ft, respectively, in rural areas. Earlier, it was Rs 2,000, Rs 4,000, and Rs 8,000.
Briefing the Cabinet decisions, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T.B. Jayachandra said in urban areas, 50 per cent discount in the penalty has been offered to owners belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes. These families have to pay only Rs. 2,500 per regularisation in urban areas.
About 20 lakh people have already applied for regularisation and in all over 40 lakh families are expected to benefit from the state government’s gesture.
Relief for Tur farmers
The state government has decided to help Tur farmers in a big way by setting up a chain of purchase centres Kalaburgi, Raichur and Yadagiri districts to buy Tur dal at a minimum support price of Rs5050 per quintal fixed by the Central Government. The purchase centres would be set-up in association with National Agricultural Commodities Federation and Food Corporation of India.
The move comes in the wake of crash in prices of Tur dal following a bumper crop and poor purchase from private buyers due to the impact of demonetization. State government has also decided to distribute Tur dal at 30 per cent subsidized price through its Public Distribution System (PDS).
Other important decisions
*Grant of 2 acres of land at Bangarpet in Kolar district for setting up KGF Power loom Park.
*Grant of 7.4 acres of land in Shivamogga for setting up KSRTC Workshop.
*Grant of Rs415cr for Tungabhadra drinking water project for parts of Davangere, Chitradurga and Shivamogga district by filling 121 tanks.
*Approval for drawing 0.812TMC of water from Supa dam to meet the drinking water needs of Haliyal in Uttara Kannada district.
*Grant of Rs11cr for upgradation of Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital in Raichur.
