The government hopes to collect a whopping Rs 5,000 crore as fine from the scheme in Bangalore city alone. Apart from penalty, there will be a substantial increase in the revenues of urban local bodies as all these illegal constructions would come under the tax net from next year.
The revised Akrama-Sakrama scheme, which was approved by the state Cabinet on Thursday, will benefit about seven lakh properties in Bangalore and about five lakh properties in other cities. Stating that the scheme was a one-time opportunity to get building violations regularised, Transport Minister R Ashok said he had recommended to the government not to encourage violations in future and initiate criminal proceedings on both property owners and BBMP officials. He has also recommended setting up of an authority to check violations and encroachments in future.
Former BMP mayor M Ramchandrappa said that the government has failed to take people into confidence before taking a final call on the revision of the Akrama Sakrama scheme. People have been kept in dark and they are not aware of the happenings related to the scheme, he said. However, we need to look into what revisions have been made in the scheme to further comment on this, he added. The government is only fooling people with the scheme. “How would they reduce it to 50 percent, when the scheme itself was never implemented? The new legislature is far from the people’s requirement,he added.
The revised Akrama-Sakrama scheme, which was approved by the state Cabinet on Thursday.The revised Akrama-Sakrama scheme will benefit about seven lakh properties in Bangalore and about five lakh properties in other cities. The government hopes to collect a whopping Rs 5,000 crore as fine from the scheme in Bangalore city alone.Transport Minister R Ashok recommended setting up of an authority to check violations and encroachments in future.He had recommended to initiate criminal proceedings on both property owners and BBMP officials.
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