<p>The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday cleared a proposal to regularise lakhs of unauthorised private properties in rural areas by levying a fee for every square foot. </p>.<p>With this, lakhs of properties with various levels of violations can come under e-Swathu, the official rural property database, making them eligible for registration and bank loans. </p>.<p>At the moment, authorities are unable to bring unauthorised rural properties under e-Swathu in order to issue Forms 9 and 11, which are essentially instruments to collect property tax. At present, unauthorised rural properties are given Form 11B for the purpose of taxation. Once citizens get the Forms 9 and 11, their properties become marketable, a senior official from the Rural Development & Panchayat Raj (RDPR) department said. </p>.<p>"This is a liberalisation regime," the official explained. "To give forms 9 and 11 under e-Swathu, we need the title document, conversion orders and the layout approval. We're now saying that forms 9 and 11 can be given with some compounding fees as long as there's a title document and road access to the property without any encroachment," the official said.</p>.<p>Under the proposed scheme, five categories of properties that can be regularised: irregular properties outside local planning area and gramatana; sites on private lands; buildings in layout sans approval and conversion order; sites in layouts sans approval and conversion order; sites on private land outside gramatana that have a conversion order, but not layout approval.</p>.<p>In January 2017, the Supreme Court stayed the Akrama-Sakrama scheme that sought to regularise unauthorised urban buildings for a fee. To steer clear from this, the proposed regularisation will not cover rural properties that come under the jurisdiction of local planning authorities (such as the BDA or BIAAPA).</p>.<p><em>DH</em> had reported in November 2021 that a Cabinet sub-committee to decide on this issue was in favour of regularising unauthorised rural properties. </p>.<p>The per-square foot regularisation fee ranges from Rs 3-6 depending on the size of the property, making it a potential money-spinner for the government. </p>
<p>The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday cleared a proposal to regularise lakhs of unauthorised private properties in rural areas by levying a fee for every square foot. </p>.<p>With this, lakhs of properties with various levels of violations can come under e-Swathu, the official rural property database, making them eligible for registration and bank loans. </p>.<p>At the moment, authorities are unable to bring unauthorised rural properties under e-Swathu in order to issue Forms 9 and 11, which are essentially instruments to collect property tax. At present, unauthorised rural properties are given Form 11B for the purpose of taxation. Once citizens get the Forms 9 and 11, their properties become marketable, a senior official from the Rural Development & Panchayat Raj (RDPR) department said. </p>.<p>"This is a liberalisation regime," the official explained. "To give forms 9 and 11 under e-Swathu, we need the title document, conversion orders and the layout approval. We're now saying that forms 9 and 11 can be given with some compounding fees as long as there's a title document and road access to the property without any encroachment," the official said.</p>.<p>Under the proposed scheme, five categories of properties that can be regularised: irregular properties outside local planning area and gramatana; sites on private lands; buildings in layout sans approval and conversion order; sites in layouts sans approval and conversion order; sites on private land outside gramatana that have a conversion order, but not layout approval.</p>.<p>In January 2017, the Supreme Court stayed the Akrama-Sakrama scheme that sought to regularise unauthorised urban buildings for a fee. To steer clear from this, the proposed regularisation will not cover rural properties that come under the jurisdiction of local planning authorities (such as the BDA or BIAAPA).</p>.<p><em>DH</em> had reported in November 2021 that a Cabinet sub-committee to decide on this issue was in favour of regularising unauthorised rural properties. </p>.<p>The per-square foot regularisation fee ranges from Rs 3-6 depending on the size of the property, making it a potential money-spinner for the government. </p>
