Two Bills passed in Council

July 22, 2014 11:42 pm | Updated 11:42 pm IST - Bangalore

Minister for Revenue V. Srinivas Prasad has said that rules under the Karnataka Land Revenue (Second) Amendment Bill, 2012, will be framed in such a way that the land regularised under this law cannot be alienated.

As per the provisions of the Bill, which was passed in the Legislative Council on Tuesday, for regularisation of unauthorised constructions on revenue land in urban areas, land granted under the legislation cannot be alienated for 15 years.

The Minister was responding to a debate on the Bill, when members said that allowing for alienation could lead to poor people being coerced into parting with their land. Responding to other queries raised, Mr. Prasad clarified that there was no question of extending deadline (now set at January 1, 2012) or regularising houses built on tank beds or along ‘raja kaluves’.

The Council also passed the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes (Amendment) Bill, 2014, earlier passed by the Legislative Assembly. Though there was a demand from the Opposition that the Bill on the backward classes commission (for conducting a social and educational survey of all castes in the State) be further amended to enable study of “economic backwardness” as well, the Bill was passed without any changes. Social Welfare Minister H. Anjaneya said the format of the survey included parameter that measure economic backwardness as well.

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