BDA resumes Arkavathy Layout formation

Land losers to get 40 pc of the developed land

After years of inaction, the formation of Arkavathi Layout seems to be back on track, with the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) starting the process of giving compensation to the land losers.

The layout, with more than 12,000 sites, is coming up in and around Jakkur in the North Bangalore region on 1,100 acres of land encompassing 16 villages. The layout formation had hit the roadblock due to farmers’ protest over compensation offered by the government.

After many rounds of discussions and negotiations, the government agreed to provide 40 per cent of the developed land to the land losers.

The government’s decision on the amount of compensation to the land losers of the residential layout was important in the sense that it became a precedence benefiting land losers across the State.

On Wednesday, the BDA formally started the formation of the layout. In the morning, BDA chief engineer with others visited the layout and spoke to the farmers.

 When the BDA officers asked the farmers to keep their records ready for the documentation process, the latter appealed to them to start the documentation process only on the day when the registration of 40 per cent of the developed land is done in favour of the land losers.

The BDA officers too agreed to the proposal and accordingly it was decided that the documentation and registration of land be done next Monday.

According to the BDA officials, anyone having one acre of land will be given at least 9,000 sq ft of developed land after land for road, CA sites and land pieces for other civic purposes.

While there are 4,000 land losers in the area, the layout has 8,000 allottees. For the last many years, allottees have been looking forward to the layout formation to construct their dream house.