Sir,

This refers to the news item titled “MUDA-allotted ‘B-Kharab’ lands of Kurubarahalli Sy. No. 4 and Alanahalli Sy. No. 41: Lethargy delays implementation of Cabinet decision” (SOM dated July 3).

The previous Siddharamaiah Government at a Cabinet meeting had taken a decision on dropping MUDA and CITB Layouts comprising Siddarthanagar, K.C. Nagar and J.C. Nagar, coming under Kurubarahalli Sy. No. 4 and Alanahalli Sy. No. 41, from ‘B-Kharab’ land classification. But for unknown reasons, the Cabinet decision has not yet been implemented thus giving rise to suspicions.

According to sources, apart from CITB and MUDA-formed Layouts in the said two Sy. Nos, there are many properties, either benami or otherwise, purchased by IAS and IPS Officers, businessmen, other bureaucrats and their kith and kin in this area.

These influential bureaucrats are now trying to somehow get their properties purchased under these Survey Numbers, but not allotted by CITB or MUDA, regularised (Sakrama) under the decision taken by the previous Siddharamaiah Government with regard to MUDA and CITB- formed Layouts.

May be, it is for this reason that the implementation of the Siddharamaiah Cabinet decision is being deliberately delayed by the bureaucracy, according to my sources in Bengaluru.

– An aggrieved resident, Siddarthanagar, 4.7.2019

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