Bengaluru: The Karnataka Cabinet yesterday approved a flat Rs. 10,000 penalty for regularising unauthorised dwelling houses built on plots measuring up to 30X40 sqft on Government land within certain limits of Urban Local Bodies.
This is applicable to sites located within 18 km of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) limits and within 10 km of the Belagavi, Kalaburagi, Hubballi-Dharwad, Mangaluru, and Mysuru City Corporation limits. It is also applicable to dwellings within a radius of 5 km, 10 km and 3 km of all city Municipalities, Town Municipal Councils and Town Panchayats respectively. Under the scheme, illegally built houses on plots measuring not more than 20X30 sqft will be regularised. Houses built on plots measuring up to 30X40 sqft on Government land in the buffer zones around ULB limits will also be regularised, Law Minister T.B. Jayachandra told reporters after the Cabinet meeting yesterday.
