Dear All, One More feather in Our Cap . Sri S .Amaresh , is the Trustee of RTI study Center and this Revelation brought out by him is Succor to an estimated 2.5 Lakh Bangalore citizens recently compared as an huge Number more than the Narmada Displaced .In Most Cases they are Tenants who would not get anything . The Mention of this an Head line in Todays TOI in the Front page itself is Appreciable and Goes to Say the power of RTI and How Best it can be used We salute Sri Amaresh and Thank him and Request him to Carry on this Good Work . Please circulate this to all affected and persons who have been issued notices by BBMP and Request them that they Should Immediatly File their Letter stating they will not Surrender their Property voluntarily that too under TDR
N vikramsimha , Trustee RTI Study Center & KRIA Katte , #12 Sumeru Sir M N Krishna Rao Road , Basvangudi < Bangalore 560004. --- On Sun, 11/7/10, Anil kumar <[email protected]> wrote: From: Anil kumar <[email protected]> Subject: [rti4ngo] Your house can’t be taken forcibly under TDR To: "KRIA 2000" <[email protected]>, "PRAJA-VOL" <[email protected]> Cc: "rti4ngo" <[email protected]>, "RTI4EMPOWERMENT" <[email protected]>, "antibriberycampaign" <[email protected]>, "NATIONAL RTI FORUM" <[email protected]>, "CAFBANGALORE" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 11 July, 2010, 10:11 AM RTI REVELATION / TIMES EXCLUSIVE Your house can’t be taken forcibly under TDR Residents Can Breathe Easy Sunitha Rao R | TNN http://epaper. timesofindia. com/Daily/ skins/TOINEW/ navigator. asp?Daily= TOIBG&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI Bangalore: There is much anguish and hand wringing in the city about people losing valuable parts of their cherished homes to road-widening. The most vocal of the affected 40,000 have been lambasting the BBMP’s move meant to smoothen the flow of traffic in a very congested city. They can all breathe easy. No acquisition can be done without the owner’s consent, according to the current law, under transferable development rights (TDR). Simply put, if a person doesn’t want to give his/her property for roadwidening, then he/she need not. Right to Information (RTI) documents in possession with TOI have thrown up the surprising and hitherto well-hidden clause which states that properties can be acquired for road-widening only under TDR. The catch — which favours the home owners — comes in the next clause; TDR can be enforced only if the owner is willing. If he isn’t willing, the only option open to BBMP is to forcibly acquire the property by paying current market rates under the Karnataka Land Acquisition Act. A process that is very expensive, tedious and timeconsuming and as such not a route preferred by BBMP to acquire land for road-widening. H Siddaiah, the newly appointed BBMP commissioner, admitted as much: “We cannot forcibly take land under TDR for road-widening. In case people refuse to give land for TDRs, then we have the option to acquire land only under the Karnataka Land Acquisition Act. But for this, there are many procedures involved — wherein we first have to issue notices to the property owners. We have to give them three months time to file objections. Then compensation will have to be paid to the property owners. The quantum of compensation again varies from area to area depending on the real estate value of the land.” The commissioner’s hope is that Bangaloreans will willingly part with their land for road-widening and the consequent infrastructure projects, keeping in mind the larger interests of the city. For the record, BBMP has already identified over 37,000 properties across the city of which 4,436 properties are in Central Business District. Realising that under TDR they cannot forcibly knock down properties, BBMP had readied plan B — to forcibly take away land for road-widening. But that might come to naught.”If the BBMP has to compensate all the affected property owners, the Palike will incur Rs 10,000 crore expenditure which is virtually unaffordable for a corporation already reeling under financial crunch,’’ sources told TOI. BBMP went ahead on roads despite rule Bangalore : The current rules of land acquisition say that under transferable development rights (TDR), the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) can’t forcibly acquire land for road-widening work. The Times of India is in possession of documents which make this point clear. In a RTI revelation in the case involving a five-star hotel and an apartment complex on Sankey Road in 2009, the BBMP had told the Chief Information Officer: “Only through the scheme of Transferable Development Rights (TDR), road widening projects can be taken up. “In this case, private property owners “have not co-operated with the BBMP and it is not possible to widen the road legally. And as per law, BBMP cannot acquire the land and go ahead with road-widening.” This is what BBMP’s executive engineer in major roads department had told the information commission on February 24, 2009, to a RTI query by one S Amaresh , managing trustee of Information Rights Study Centre. The project involved widening of road from High Grounds Police Station to Hebbal Flyover. The BBMP went ahead with the road-widening on this stretch by acquiring the land belonging to Bangalore Golf Club opposite the star hotel.
