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Repeal of Karnataka Ordinance No. 29 of 1975. ***** STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS I Act 12 of 1976.- At the conference of the Ministers for Housing and Urban Development held at Delhi in November 1971, it was agreed that a common Authority for the development of metropolitan cities should be set up. Bangalore City with its population (as per last census) is a Metropolitan City. Different Authorities like the City of Bangalore Municipal Corporation, the City Improvement Trust Board, the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board, the Housing Board and the Bangalore City Planning Authority are exercising jurisdiction over the area. Some of the functions of these bodies like development, planning, etc., are overlapping creating thereby avoidable confusion, besides hampering co- 1976: KAR. ACT 12] Bangalore Development Authority 103 ordinated development. It is, therefore, considered necessary to set up a single authority like the Delhi Development Authority for the city areas adjacent to it which in course of time will become part of the City. For the speedy implementation of the above said objects as also the 20 point programme and for establishing a co-ordinating Central Authority, urgent action was called for. Moreover the haphazard and irregular growth would continue unless checked by the Development Authority and it may not be possible to rectify or correct mistakes in the future. If was therefore necessary to issue the measure in the form of an Ordinance. The Bill seeks to replace the said Ordinance. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette Part IV-2A (Extraordinary) No. 688 dated 5.2.1976. at page 45) II Amending Act 8 of 77.- The Bangalore Development Authority Act, 1976 came into force on the 20th day of December 1975. There is no provision under this Act for the reservation of seats for persons belonging to the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and for women in the Bangalore Development Authority. It is also considered desirable to delegate to the Engineering Staff of the Bangalore Development Authority powers of scrutinising estimates to the same extent to which such powers have been delegated to the Engineering Staff of the Public Works Department so as to ensure quick implementation of development schemes. As a number of housing schemes have been taken up in the Bangalore City by the Housing Board before the commencement of the Act, it is desirable to permit the Housing Board to execute these works in accordance with the said scheme. The Housing Board can also be permitted to take-up scheme in an area within the purview of the Bangalore Development Area, in conformity with the lay out plan of the Bangalore Development Authority. Clause (k) of Section 3(ii) refers to the Karnataka Road Transport corporation where the correct nomenclature of this Corporation is the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation. This requires to be modified. With a view to giving representation to persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as also to women, to delegate the financial powers to the Engineering members and officers for scrutinising the estimates, to indicate the correct nomenclature of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation and to enabling the Karnataka Housing Board to undertake the housing activities in Bangalore Development Authority [1976: KAR. ACT 12 104 Bangalore, necessary amendments to the Bangalore Development Authority Act, 1976 are proposed. Hence this Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette Part IV-2A (Extraordinary) No. 239 dated 28.3.1977 at page 4) III Amending Act 18 of 1981.- Due to his being burdened with very heavy administrative and the executive responsibilities the Chairman of the Bangalore Development Authority was not able to provide the necessary leadership with regard to policy matters of the Bangalore Development Authority. Government therefore considered that it was necessary in the interest of the better administration of the Authority to appoint a senior officer of the rank of a Secretary to Government, as Commissioner of the Authority for the purposes of the better and more effective administration of the Bangalore Development Authority so as to leave sufficient time to the Chairman to guide the proceedings of the Authority. As the matter was urgent an Ordinance was issued for the said purposes. The Bill seeks to replace the said Ordinance. (Obtained from L.A Bill No. 12 of 1981.) IV Amending Act 37 of 1982.- In the Bangalore Development Authority Act. 1976 there is no provision for transfer of the employees of the Authority. It is now proposed to transfer any officer or servant of the Authority to an equivalent post in any Municipal Corporation or Municipal council. Powers have been conferred on the State Government to issue directions in this behalf for compliance by the Local Authority. It is also considered necessary to have a representative from the Administrative Department, namely Housing and Urban Development Department as a member of the said Authority. Hence the Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette Part IV-2A (Extraordinary) No. 817 dated 24.11.1982 at page 3.) V Amending Act 17 of 1984.- There is no provision in the Bangalore Development Authority Act making it obligatory on the part of the Authority to reserve any area for civic amenities and public parks and playgrounds. There is also no provision in the Bangalore Development Authority Act prohibiting the allotment or diversion of areas or sites reserved for civic amenities, parks or playgrounds, for other purposes. 1976: KAR. ACT 12] Bangalore Development Authority 105 The Committee on Public Accounts in the Third Report (1979-80) has observed that many of the Boards and Corporations do not furnish their accounts for being presented to the Legislature after audit. It is therefore considered necessary to amend the Act providing for the following:- (a) to define the term "civic amenity" ; (b) that at least fifteen percent of the total area of a layout should be reserved for public parks and playgrounds and an additional ten percent should be reserved for civic amenities ; (c) that the authority shall not have the power to dispose of sites reserved for parks, play grounds and other civic amenities for any other purposes; (d) fixing the responsibility on the Commissioner for the maintenance of accounts, the preparation of the annual statement of accounts and sending them to the State Government ; (e) requiring the State Government for getting the accounts audited to place them before the Legislature ; and (f) to enhance the power of the Chairman under section 50. Hence this Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette Part IV-2A (Extraordinary) No. .47 dated 18.1.1984 at page 5.) VI Amending Act 34 of 1984.- The problem of encroachments on lands belonging to Municipalities, Bangalore Development Authority, Improvement Boards and other Local Bodies has assumed serious proportions. It is necessary to provide deterrent punishment for such encroachments.