The Bangalore Development
Authority and the Karnataka Housing Board are the only two government agencies
dealing with the housing needs of the people of Bangalore, though, however, there
are a large number of private property developers including housing cooperative
societies in the field.
Ever since its formation in the year
1976, the. B.D.A. has formed 62 layouts and has allotted house sites to about 2lakhs
people. But the newly formed layouts such as Visveswaraiah Layout, Banashankari
6th stage, Anjanapura Layout, lack even the basic civic amenities
such as good roads, water and sanitary facilities, public transport, schools
and colleges, market centres, recreation clubs, parks, street lights even though
several years have elapsed. The resultant effect is that many of the allottees
of sites in these layouts have not come forward to put up construction.
When this is the plight of the allottees
of the house sites in these layouts, there are a large number of people eagerly
waiting for announcement of new layouts to try their luck.The population of Bangalore
is estimated to be around 85lakhs and at least about 50% of them may be in need
of house or house sites. Assuming that the K.H.B has allotted house and or house
sites to about 1lakh people, in addition
to the house sites allotted by the BOA, and further assuming that about 10% to 15%
of the remainder have purchased properties from the private property developers,
still there remains a large number of people who are yet to get their housing needs
fulfilled.
Before initiating any steps for formation of new layouts, the B.O.A. and other connected agencies may take up on priority
basis the work relating to the civic and other amenities in the already formed
layouts to make them fit for human habitation so that the allotters of sites may
construct their houses and move into them. Only thereupon, the 3.0.A may initiate
action to develop fully fledged townships with all civic amenities and best road
and rail connectivity. The present practice of simply forming layouts without providing
civic amenities and making the allottees to wait for several years for these
facilities may be discontinued. It is suggested that the procedure adopted in
the case of private property developers permitting them to sell only 60% of the
total sites in their layouts at the first stage and to sell the remaining 40% upon
completion of the layout fully may be adopted in respect of the new layouts to be formed by the BDA so that the BOA may move faster.
Further, the role of the private
property developers cannot be overlooked particularly for the reason that the BDA/KHB
are not in a position to meet the housing needs of the people fully. It would
be fair if the Government encourages the private property developers and introduce
a single window clearance system for approval of layouts formed them to avoid unnecessary
delay in granting approval and tossing the documents to several departments. While
at the same time, stringent punishment may be inflicted on the property
developers who violate building bye-laws and other statutory regulations and
cheat the public.
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