Working on new law to safeguard the rights of apartment buyers and owners: D K Shivakumar
Bengaluru: While speaking in the assembly on Tuesday Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar announced that the government is working on a new uniform law across Karnataka to safeguard the rights of apartment buyers and owners.
The new law seeks to abolish the existing Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, 1972 while subsuming the Karnataka Real Estate Regulation and Development (RERA) Rules, 2017.
"Action is being taken to introduce a new Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, which will have uniform application in all cities and towns," Shivakumar said.
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"At present, there's the 1972 law. Resident associations are being registered under cooperative societies. So, there are two separate departments. Then, there's RERA that came into effect in 2016. So, we want to abolish the existing laws and come out with a new one," Shivakumar said.
Shivakumar was responding to a calling attention motion raised by Basavanagudi BJP MLA LA Ravi Subramanya on ensuring property ownership in Bengaluru.
"What's happening right now is, construction of an apartment starts on one PID number. Then, the same PID number is divided based on the number of flats. For example, PID number 1 becomes 1/2 and so on. Some portions are retained by the owner (of the land). The ownership of land remains in that person's name," Subramanya explained.
"Resident associations should get the ownership of land. After 30-40 years, redevelopment can't be taken up because the land will still be in the name of the original owner. Also, some landlords are misusing this to obtain loans from cooperative banks. So, the registered associations should get ownership," Subramanya said.
Shivakumar said "regular developers" do not do what Subramanya said after the implementation of RERA. "I myself have built properties. We handover documents to the association. Only the unauthorised and illegal developers do this," he said, adding that he has commissioned a comprehensive mapping of property documents in the whole of Bengaluru. "The association should be the owner of the property. It's the right suggestion. We'll do it," he said
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
