No Pre-launch or Underdevelop Layouts Can be Sold as per BBMP Rules

The Karnataka government has decided to abandon the system of releasing the sites for registration by the developers soon after the approval of the layouts. This was a bid to prevent the unfair practices of the developers and the real estate agents to prevent them from being exploited and cheated by the unscrupulous developers. To resolve this problem and to protect the common man and the consumers the government has already decided to abandon the system of releasing a portion of the land plot to the developer for sale and not to allow the developers to register the sites till the project is completed as per the approved plan by the local authority.

A properly developed layout can only be eligible for sale

BMRDA has a little to do with Layouts Approvals

Presently the local bodies of the urban areas and the cities like in Bangalore the Bangalore Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (BMRDA) and the Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) release these layouts and sites to developers for registration in the normal ratio of 40:30:30. Where BBMP has a little role in playing a little role in framing the rules and laws to approve these layouts. Just after the approval of the project 40 percent of the land is released to the developer as the first installment. This was the norm to help the developers to gather funds and take up the development work like the construction of the roads, drainage system, street lights, demarcation of the plots and completion of other works like culverts, barricades, walls, etc. The remaining 60 percent used to be released to the developers of the layouts in successive installments as and alongside these development work in progress. But unfortunately a very large number of the property developers were misusing these provisions of the government. This is one of the reason why I came up with a site TGS Layouts Reviews and to know the the reality behind the projects and properties of this developer I prepared a public place to share feedback on the properties of TGS.

no use of applying for approval

KTCPA Plans on fraudulent

The town planning experts opine that the developers were deceiving the Urban Local Bodies and the Local Planning Authorities and there have been multiple complaints from the citizens and the consumers that they were being cheated without providing the necessary infrastructure promised. The most affected were the people who were allotted the land plots in such layouts in the first installment. To curb such practices and as an attempt to bring an end to such unfair practices there have been a recent legislature which has been passed by the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act (KTCPA), 1961. This amendment in the bill makes it mandatory for all the Urban Local Authorities and the Local Planning Authorities to release the land layout for registration only after the completion of the projects according to the approved layout plans.

The Director of the Town and Country Planning Mr. B M Tiruganagoudar said that this amendment in the law is yet to obtain the assent of the government. He also opined that there is no such provision in the KTPCA for releasing the land layouts and the sites in installments. Earlier this norm had come into being because of the Urban Development Department had introduced it by issuing a circular. This system of releasing the land layouts and sites has been in vogue since 2014. Before this the local authorities used to release the land in two installments in the ratio of 40:60.

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