KG layout plots: second phase of allotment in Oct

BENGALURU: The Bangalore Development Authority ( BDA) will put out the final list of plot allottees for the Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Layout by the end of this month. The agency published a provisional list of allottees on Sunday for 4,999 plots in this housing layout which is being formed off Magadi Road after a gap of 11 years.

This is the first time that the BDA is putting out a provisional list of allottees with details such as the applicant's name, father's name, age and total number of attempts. "This is meant to help all applicants to see how the allotment has been made. If anyone wants to file an objection, he or she can do so and we will give a reply," said PN Nayak, Engineer Member, BDA.

"We will give two weeks of time for people to file objections, if any. We will put out the final list in about 10 days after that," he said. The BDA will begin the process of refund after publishing the final list and ineligible applicants will not get any interest, he said.

The plots are ready in this new layout which has access from Magadi Road, Chord Road and Kengeri satellite town, according to Nayak. The BDA, he said, will give three months of time for allottees to make payment and complete the process of lease-cum-sale. In all, 32,000 people applied for plots, which are expensive because of steep land acquisition costs, he said.

II Phase in October

The BDA will start the second phase of allotment in this layout in October. "We are carving out 40,500 plots in this layout which is spread over 4,000 acres. Of these, 15,000 plots will go to farmers landowners and the balance 25,000 plots will be available for allotment," the Engineer Member said. The BDA, he added, will allot sites in batches of 5,000 plots.

It will take about two years for the entire layout to be ready .

Cut-off details

The BDA has published the cutoff details of the allotments made, according to which an applicant born in 1939 has got a 50x80 plot and someone with 10 attempts has got a 30x40 plot under the general category.

A look at the provisional list put out for general public category reveals some puzzling facts: A 61-year-old applicant with eight attempts has got a 50x80 plot, while another 60-year-old applicant has got a 40x60 plot with nine attempts to his credit. It has taken a 58-year old applicant 10 attempts to get a 30x40 plot.

This might seem odd to all those applicants who have been tracking BDA site allotment process for several years. The transparency, which BDA has adopted from this round of plot allotment, might throw up interesting cases of discrepancies committed in the past allotments.