Importance of Bangalore development authority (BDA,BMRDA) approval is very important in buying property in Bangalore

There are so many layouts without proper approvals that have BBMP Khatha. Khatha is about tax NOT about approvals.

If you buy such a property, you have to factor in “betterment” charges down the line and regularization via Akrama Sakrama, etc. Lot of trips to the government offices and penalties and misc payments.

BDA NOC doesn’t mean anything either. It just says BDA doesn’t have interest in acquiring that land at that point of time. There are plenty of cased of BDA NOCs that have been forged as well.

So, bottom line, lookup the BDA or BMRDA website to see if the developer, his project and survey numbers are approved. And, get yourself a good lawyer

Revenue site is one either it could be DC Converted (Changed the status of the land from Agricultural to non-agricultural usage) or not. In spite of DC Conversion if the layout has not been officially approved by any competent authority, still its equal to a Revenue land.

When the owner is not able to furnish a BDA NOC or able to get an approval for the Layout he has done, how can you say he and his land has genuine records??? Can he give in a registered document that in case of any kind of issues in the future, he is accountable and refund your amount along with agreed penalty or gives an alternate land of similar price acceptable by you?

Concerned Govt authority has the final rights to acquire any land from the unapproved areas for any civic/developmental purpose which comes in their future plans. For ex. even in the recently finalised Arkavathy layout (BDA Layout), 100s of Plots were taken back by BDA for the new VVIP road which connects the city centre to the new international Airport. So Just constructing house in a revenue land doesn’t guarantee that, it will be excluded. It all depends on their final terms and conditions laid out at that time and the leadership. But in case you are loosing your plot, you will be eligible to Apply for a BDA site under special category in such situation or if you are a land lord of agricultural land, you are eligible to get 40% of developed land in those layouts as per new BDA Norms.

Enquire with BDA/BBMP that, once you purchase this land, are you entitled for Khata in your name for this plot from them. If the answer is NO, you are at risk.

Akrama-Sakrama is a big saga happening from last 5 years and there is no time frame to put an end to this circus. In any decision, you will be the penalty payer, not the layout developer.

Its always good to go for a BDA/BBMP approved layouts ONLY. So that it will be a planned layout and all the civic amenities are guaranteed (of course the time frame is not to be considered). The town planning will be proper, decent and the value appreciation is also guaranteed. for ex. consider the layouts like Jayanagar, JP Nagar, BTM layout, Koramangala, HSR Layout, R.T Nagar etc. In front of these layouts can u match any revenue layouts with similar Roads, Civic amenities like parks, BBMP ward offices, BDA Complexes which gives civic services, BWSSB/KPTCL Services…..etc?

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