It was recently that the Karnataka Administrative Reforms Commission-2 (KARC-2), headed by former Chief Secretary T.M. Vijay Bhaskar, in its report to the government recommended the conversion of B-Khata sites to A-Khata after collecting land conversion fee, penalty, compounding fee for the development authority concerned, and building plan approval fee.
This, along with the State Government also expressing its intent in converting B-Khata to A-Khata during the Belagavi session, is reason for speculation of its inclusion in the State Budget that will be presented on Thursday.
Though it was first proposed in 2018, lakhs of citizens are still waiting for the civic body to frame rules and regulations that would make way for the conversion of B-Khata to A-Khata, apart from delinking it from Akrama Sakrama, which is still pending before the Supreme Court. There are over six lakh B-Khata properties, including vacant sites, in the 198 wards of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).
