Despite red flags, Karnataka grants Bengaluru land worth Rs 255 crore to 22 Dalit & OBC mutts

BENGALURU: The Congress govt has decided to assistance Rs 255 crore worthy of onshore successful Bengaluru to 22 Dalit and OBC mutts, overruling reddish flags raised by cardinal departments connected giving distant gomala onshore and parcels that are wrong the metropolis corp limits.Documents reviewed by TOI amusement that the departments of finance, and instrumentality and parliamentary affairs advised against the determination arsenic it mightiness pull ineligible scrutiny since gomala onshore could not beryllium alienated oregon granted to backstage organisations.However, elder ministers said specified opinions are "nothing new" and are astir akin for each land-grant requests. The govt made the determination past week.In aboriginal 2025, seers from Dalit and Backward Classes had sought onshore and assistance from the govt to tally their philanthropic institutions successful Bengaluru.

As portion of the appeal, the president and wide caput of the Backward Dalit Mathadeeshwarara Okkuta, Bengaluru, had sought onshore for 22 of their mutts successful Ravuttanahalli, Dasanapura of Bangalore North district.Some 34 acres and 9 guntas connected Survey No. 57 and different parcel of 18 acres and 5 guntas connected Survey No. 58 were fixed to these institutions. Each mutt was projected to get betwixt 20 guntas and 4 acres, depending connected the size of the mutt, its followers and widen of societal work.

"Supreme Court has directed main secretaries of each the states and Union territories to sphere poramboku/gomala/kharabu/waterbodies for nationalist usage arsenic per cases of Jagpal Singh and others vs State of Punjab study successful 2011 and Joginder and others vs State of Haryana peculiar permission petition and Hinch Lal Tiwari vs Kamal Devi and others connected July 25 2001," reads a enactment by the authorities govt departments. It further says onshore projected to beryllium fixed falls wrong 18km from erstwhile BBMP headquarters.As per Karnataka Land Grant Rules-1969, govt onshore wrong the metropolis limits shall not beryllium granted to immoderate idiosyncratic oregon backstage institutions and shall beryllium reserved for nationalist purpose. “Therefore, determination is nary proviso for granting the land,” concluded the departments.

According to the concern department, the onshore value, arsenic per guidance value, was Rs 1 crore an acre, portion the aforesaid land, if converted but undeveloped, was worthy Rs 1.8 crore. If developed, the onshore would beryllium worthy Rs 4.8 crore an acre. Revenue officials claimed immoderate of these mutts who person been granted onshore were of caller root and had nary way grounds to substantiate their philanthropic work.