The Times of India: Mysore: Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
While site allotments and denotifiation have hit the ruling dispensation, denotification of land in and around Mysore has affected MUDA's plans for planned development of the city. On Tuesday activist M Lakshmana said 1,200 acres has been denotified out of 3,500 acres acquired by the urban authority.
He has collected details under RTI and said he plans to file a PIL against the government. He asked the governor H R Bhardwaj to take serious note of the series of denotifications, which, minister Shobha Karandlaje had agreed is impairing the developed agenda of the urban body when she was the district minister two years back.
Accusing the urban development department of denotifying the land without reasons, Lakshmana said he will move the high court in case the governor doesn't step in. According to him, 63,000 acres in and around Mysore are transacted at the sub-registrar offices in Mysore. In some 10 years, the private developers have distributed 50,000 sites. But MUDA, which was set up in 1904, has distributed merely 35,000 sites and has over 1 lakh application pending. Instead of acquiring land and developing layouts, it is helping the real estate agents by allowing denotification, he stated. Surprisingly the urban body is not explaining as to what did it do with the 2,300 acres acquired. Some 40,000 sites can be developed in it, but MUDA has developed and allotted 15,000 sites since 1991, he said.
MUDA commissioner C G Betsurmath said he has no knowledge of the denotifications but denied that they are promoting the private developers. "We are serving the people as per the government's directive," he said.
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