Owners of B-Khata properties can heave a sigh of relief. After years of deliberations, it has now been recommended that all properties in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) area may be given Khata/PID (property identify numbers) after collection of improvement expenses. This decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary P. Ravi Kumar held recently.
Though first proposed in 2018, lakhs of citizens are still waiting for the civic body to regularise their properties from B-Khata to A-Khata. Since 2008, BBMP, following directions of the State Government, has not been issuing A-Khata (permanent property record) to properties that are in violation of Government regulations. For such properties, for the purpose of tax collection, a separate register was created – B register – and properties under this have come to be known as B-Khata properties.
Sources in BBMP said that to delink the Khata issue from Akrama-Sakrama, which is still pending before the Supreme Court, the State Government had amended the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964, in March 2018.
