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Bengaluru, Oct 15 (IANS) Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday announced a 100-day campaign from November 1 to convert B accounts into A accounts in the area under the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA).
“The state government has taken a historic decision to convert B accounts to A accounts. This scheme will benefit 15 lakh property owners in Bengaluru. This is a revolutionary scheme and will clean up the property market,” the Deputy Chief Minister said after inaugurating the online system for converting B accounts to A accounts at Vidhana Soudha.
He announced that this is the sixth guarantee and Diwali gift to the people by the Congress-led government in the state.
“Properties up to 2,000 square meters are covered under the new scheme. All properties converting to A Khata need to produce CAD drawings and other documents. The campaign will run for 100 days from November 1. If the property owner registers online for conversion by paying a registration fee of Rs 500, corporation officials will come to the doorstep and provide conversion services,” he said.
“Property owners will have to pay a fee of 5 per cent of the existing guidance value for conversion. The government will have to provide all the infrastructure in these areas, and hence will have to charge a fee. A higher fee structure will be decided after 100 days, and it will be communicated later,” he said.
“Two help desks will be set up in each of the five corporations to facilitate the process. Registration can also be done at Bengaluru Forest. Property owners will not have to pay any money to anyone for this process,” he said.
The Deputy Chief Minister said B Khata owners are not allowed to construct anything on the property until the conversion is done. Multi-storey buildings built on B account land will not be converted into A account. The fee for the buildings will be decided later. After registration, the officials will photograph the property along with the owner and upload the photo to the server. There is a window for review and correction.
Shivakumar claimed, “For the first time in Bengaluru, we have introduced a uniform account system. We have resolved all the issues with e-khata. Assets have been digitized. Such initiatives have not been taken in the last 50 years. This is the sixth guarantee from the government. We are giving your rights back to you.”
“Of the 25 lakh properties in Bengaluru, 7.5 lakh are Khata B Khata properties. Another 7 lakh properties are not eligible for B Khata. This will help people get loans easily, as banks were not sanctioning loans for B Khata properties. Only B Khata land is being regularised, and we are not considering regularizing buildings built on such properties,” he said.
He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi government has appreciated our initiative of digitalizing assets and has rewarded our officers. The Center considers this initiative revolutionary. I would like to thank everyone involved in this initiative.
Asked about declaring roads in private roads as government property, he said, “We consider it a government road even if there is a property there. Many gated communities had not transferred the land to the government for the road, and we are fixing all that now.”
Asked how much revenue the government was expecting from the conversion of B accounts, he said, “We will know once the registration of properties is completed.”
When asked about the threat call to Priyank Kharge, he said, “The more power, the more enemies and vice versa.”
–IANS
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