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Horamavu residents oppose Sakrama

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‘Why should we pay huge penalty to get another approval?’

BANGALORE: Members of Horamavu Agara Gram Panchayat have questioned the State Government’s Sakrama scheme under which all building plans and approvals sanctioned by the 110 village panchayats and the erstwhile City Municipal Councils, merged with Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, stand nullified.

“We had not dreamt that our areas would be added into the city limits. We have obtained approvals and got building plans sanctioned from the village panchayats to construct our houses. Now the civic body says the village panchayats and CMCs are not authorised to sanction approvals. Why should we accept that and pay huge penalty to get new approvals,” M. Muniraju, a member of Horamavu Agara Gram Panchayat, asked.

Demanding that properties under village panchayats be exempted from the regularisation process and that the whole scheme be withdrawn, more than 2,000 residents of Horamavu Agara Gram Panchayat will stage a protest demonstration in front of Gandhi Statue on December 1, he told presspersons here on Wednesday.

Builders join stir

Close on the heels of protest calls given by several civic groups and political parties including the Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist), members of Greater Bangalore Builders’ Association on Wednesday have termed the scheme as “irrational” and “unscientific”.

Association general secretary D.V. Raghu and president Sreepathy Rao told presspersons here on Wednesday that the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act clearly stated that whenever any area was merged into a corporation or an urban agglomeration, the sanctions obtained prior to this merger from the competent authorities could not be nullified.

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