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Residents at builders mercy

Residents of apartments in erstwhile CMC wards are being taken for a ride by builders, who are collecting exorbitant amount as fees for new BWSSB connections...

The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has offered to provide Cauvery water for residents of the 72 wards that come under the erstwhile CMCs. Builders of apartment complexes within the limits of these wards have already started collecting charges from occupants for BWS SB connections. However, the charges they are demanding from occupants are exorbitant, when compared to the actual rates fixed by the board.
Residents of an apartment complex in Kodic hikkanahalli (Bommanahalli CMC), on condition of anonymity, told Deccan Herald that the builder has been demanding Rs 65 per sq ft to provide the BWSSB connections.
One of the residents said he lives in an apartment with a total area of around 1,600 sqft and the charge to get the BWSSB connection to his residence would be around Rs 1.04 lakh! However, BWSSB officers said that total charges to get the connection would not cross Rs 30 per sq ft which works out to Rs 48,000.
The State Government had taken up the Greater Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Project to provide Cauvery water for erstwhile CMC areas. The government had fixed the amount of contribution from beneficiaries with respect to the area of the building. The last date to pay the contribution was July 31, 2005, and those who did not pay within the deadline have been asked to pay a fine.
Apart from the contribution, residents of apartment complexes have to pay pro-rata charges fixed by the BWSSB. The board is providing water connection and sanitation line facilities. For both facilities, residents have to pay a fee at the rate of Rs 80 per sq m each. Besides, the board collects inspection char ges (Rs 2,500 per building), charge for sanitation points (wash basin, bathroom) three months minimum in advance and metre charges. The metre charges depend on the distance from the connecting pipel ine, number of apar tments in a complex and diameter of the supplying pipe. The amount will have to be shared by the occupants.
For an apartment with a total area of 1,200 sq ft, the total charge to get the BWSSB connection will be Rs 29,151 (excluding metre charges) and that amounts to Rs 24.29 per sq ft (see box). Inclusive of the meter charges, the rate will only cross Rs 28 per sq ft. There are, however, cases where builders are demanding more than double the actual rates.
A senior BWSSB engineer said, “Going by the rates fixed by the board, the actual rate will not go more than Rs 28 per sq ft. There are builders who take the occupants for a ride. They collect exorbitant charges stating that they have to bribe BWSSB staff. Residents are better off getting connections through their associations, instead of depending on the builders.”

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Fight for cubbon park

Deccan Herald: June 23rd 2007

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The advocate of a City resident who had objected to the parking lot around Karnataka High Court in Cubbon Park premises has complained about non-issuance of a copy of High Court order permitting the Rs 33-crore project even after two months.

M G Kumar, advocate for Bimal N Desai, a petitioner in the PIL in which a prohibition on new constructions in Cubbon Park premises without HC permission was operative, said he had filed objections to government’s application seeking permission for the project.

“The orders in the matter was reserved and a decision was pronounced on April 19 by a division Bench headed by Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph. I applied for a copy of the order on April 24, but till date, HC’s office has not provided me a copy,’’ he said.

He said he had addressed letters to HC Registrar Judicial and HC Registrar General on May 4 and June 11 pointing out the delay.

Appeal
“We have decided to file an appeal against permitting order before the Supreme Court. But, due to delay in getting the order copy, I am not able to do so.”

Arkavathy Layout Judgement - (june 06/2005)

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Ref: Deccan Herald (June 6th 2005)

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Save Cubbon Park..!!

As all of us know bangalore is no more a GARDEN City..>!!

Time and again Govt. is working harder to make our lives miserable..!!

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CAUVERY TRIBUNAL AWARD

After 16 years and 580 sittings, the three-member Cauvery water Disputes Tribunal gave its final award on February 5, 2007. The Tribunal comprising of Chairman Justice N.P.Singh and members N.S. Rao and Sudhir Narain, gave a unanimous award allocating the total available water to the disputing states. Of the available 740 thousand million cubic feet, Tamilnadu was given 419 tmc ft. Karnataka 270 tmc ft, Kerala 30 tmc ft and Puducherry 7 tmc ft. 10 tmc has been allocated for environmental protection and 4 tmc ft for escapade into the sea. According to the final award, Karnataka will release 192 tmc ft to be measured at Biligundlu as a host to the interim award in which Karnataka had to release 205 tmc ft at Mettur. The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was notified by the Central Government on June 2, 1990 with Justice Chittatosh Mookerjee as the first Chairman and justice S.D. Agarwal and N.S.Rao as members.

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BDA - Bangalore Development Authority

BDA Commissioner Mr. Shankarlinge Gowda on Nov 16th 2007 has warned that if the allotees of site in Anjanapura Layout do not construct their houses, it would forfeit the sites within 2yrs from now. The news report also says that the sites were alloted in 2001 but even after 6yrs allotees have not built on their sites.

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BDA alloted sites in BSK 6th stage in the yr 2004. But even upto this day the BDA engineers are reluctant to commence the road laying and metaling job.

Without completing these projects BDA is misleading & making tall claims to form other new layouts in future.


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